ABSTRACT
In the most well-known case of cricket and the law, Miller v. Jackson,1 Lord Denning waxes eloquent on the importance of cricket in the meaning of life.
In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in County Durham, they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The cricket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good club house for the players and seats for the onlookers. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings after work they practise while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play there any more. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket.
