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“The trouble is I don’t understand the language. I don’t really understand what a website is.”

Thursday 17 May 2007 at 6:07 pm | In News | Post Comment

Judges will often ask counsel what appear to be blindingly obvious questions not because they don’t know the answer but because future generations will not know. So, when a judge asked who Gazza was and who the Beatles were the judges were eliciting an answer for posterity not because he didn’t know.

As protective of our judiciary as one might feel, it appears impossible to find a benign explanation for Judge Peter Openshaw’s when he said, “I don’t really understand what a website is.”

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