(552)  DA VINCI CODE, SMITHY CODE

 

The admittedly fairly tenuous connection between Dan Brown’s celebrated novel The Da Vinci Code and Scotland – the former’s denouement at Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian – allows Scots Law News to note the extraordinary judgment of Peter Smith J published on 7 April 2006, in the English case about whether in putting together his creation Brown had plagiarised an earlier work called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Baigent v Random House Group Ltd [2006] EWHC 719.  In finding for Brown and Random House, Smith J inserted into his judgment his own coded message, applying the Fibonacci Sequence”