{"id":300,"date":"2006-04-27T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-04-27T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:18:44","slug":"is-this-obiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Is this obiter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that Mr Justice Peter Smith the judge in the <strong>Da Vinci Code<\/strong> copyright trial inserted his own secret code into his judgment. &nbsp;Smith italicised letters in the first part of the document to spell out &#8220;Smithy code&#8221;, but lawyers who have been poring over the judgment for the last three weeks have only just noticed. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthform.info\/lawblog\/files\/images_04.jpg\" border=0><br \/>After &#8220;Smithy code&#8221; there are more of the letters jumbled up, they can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk\/images\/judgment-files\/baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdf\">here<\/a>. <br \/>We think the letters are: <br \/>j a e i e x t o s t g p s a c g r e a m q w f k a d p m q z v <\/p>\n<p>Channel4 news has some cracking solutions already, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that Mr Justice Peter Smith the judge in the Da Vinci Code copyright trial inserted his own secret code into his judgment. &nbsp;Smith italicised letters in the first part of the document to spell out &#8220;Smithy code&#8221;, but lawyers who have been poring over the judgment for the last three weeks have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}