Significance
The case was met with immediate outrage for creating, or reviving, economic torts as a weapon to undermine the right to strike. This was reversed by the Trade Disputes Act 1965.
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“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?—to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)