Read the full judgment text of CACV 000167/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 February 1995.
1. This court is concerned, in these appeals, with questions of rating. The world of rating appears, to one unfamiliar with the arcana, to be cloud-cuckoo land, a world of virtual unreality from which real cuckoos are excluded (although it seems that permission to land will be granted to a cuckoo flying in from the real world if it can demonstrate that its presence in cloud-cuckoo land is essential, not merely accidental: see Dawkins (V.O.) v. Ash Brothers & Heaton Ltd [1969] AC 366 per Lord Pea