An Easter Message from Stephen Baister

Law and religion do not sit easily together these days, even though the former has its origins in the latter. The opening paragraph of ICC Judge Prentis’s judgment in Lakey v Macabuag & Ors Re Mitt Wearables Ltd [2023] EWHC 1800 (Ch) is a happy exception to that proposition:

“During the conversations before Nathan Macabuag invited Benjamin Lakey to join him as a co-founder of Mitt Wearables Limited (“Mitt”), Mr Macabuag told him a story. In its condensed form, given in cross-examination, it was of Jesus “riding on a donkey and everyone is sort of like applauding because they’re happy that Jesus is coming back. So this donkey is walking into town, it’s full of a crowd of people, and this donkey is thinking ‘Yeah, wow, all these people for me, wow’. And the moral of the story is, obviously: don’t be an ass: it’s not you; it’s what you’re carrying; it’s the idea.”

The rest of the judgment is less interesting, dealing as it does with an unfair prejudice petition presented by the co-founder of a company set up to develop and sell a new form of prosthetic upper limb. The petition failed. The point made by the story told by Mr Macabuag remains a good one.

Happy Easter.

Stephen Baister
Board Director