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Hard To Have Sympathy With This Couple
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They appear to think that everyone is out to get them - they could have quit whilst ahead but continued.
all this money over a lamp!
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jno - // ymb, it doesn't matter if the light is bounced off the moon and back; the point is that they've forced light pollution on their neighbours, and that's unneighbourly. //
That may be, but as several series of a Channel 5 documentary series have proved, neighbours are not always neigbourly.
In a situation like this, you have to take an objective look at the situation, and analyse, without getting het up about your 'rights', exactly what chance you have of winning a court case.
I would suggest an ethical solicitor would have advised them that a win was unlikely.
That means, either that their solicitor was unethical, unlikely, joking aside, or that they chose to proceed, motivated by an over-developed and irrational sense of victimhood and home/castle egotism.
They appear to have chased their quarry over a cliff, and spent an obscene amount of money simply to try and score a phyrric victory, which they have failed to do.
They may have been morally right, but in the real world, a moral victory does not automatically convert into a legal one.
As they have discovered, to their considerable cost.
My inlaws had a lamp identical to the one in this case, there was no complaints from neighbours either side of their property.
The couple brought a vexatious case because of previous acrimony, and lost.
They then followed a private prosecution and lost again.
Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the well-known known definition of insanity.
They lost. And now they want to make it anyone's fault but theirs.
I know you can't judge people fro their picture, but looking at these two, it's hard not to do so.
