when nerds make legal rulings...
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Justice Peter Smith's puzzle is not as involved as the Da Vinci Code Quest, but more appealing, in a way.
Hints:
From the ruling: "The key to solving the conundrum posed by this judgment is in reading HBHG and DVC"
The different ways codes are broken in "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and "The Da Vinci Code" should be considered.
Apply one of the code-breaking methods used in "The Da Vinci Code"
Think mathematics
His entry in Who's Who — in which he lists an interest in the history of Jackie Fisher, an admiral who modernized the British Navy, a possible reason that his e-mail address contains the word "pescator," implying fisherman
The date 2006 is significant