Hard To Have Sympathy With This Couple

[Redhelen72]

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!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13011341/Pensioners-100000-bill-neighbours-lantern-kent-hunt-pollard.html

[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.

[andy-hughes]

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.

[THECORBYLOON]

The light bounces off a church but how reflective is brickwork?

 

[andy-hughes]

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.

[THECORBYLOON]

JNO, "ymb, it doesn't matter if the light is bounced off the moon and back"

Do you not think the neighbours would have objected to a power station being built to power such a light?