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Indeed. There is a lot of truth in the old adage that the law is an ass..... In my area of work there was a 20-year legal argument over whether 'may' in the legislation meant 'can do' or 'must do'!

Lake District rate of resolving them at present = 2 per year. Outstanding = 30. 15 years, that's without any new ones. As soon as trespass was criminalised, we'd be flooded with hundreds more - let alone the ones that come in anyway.

Yes, my last point was an unintended benefit - I was just using it as an example of where a piece of legislation meant for one thing, then extended to another (the law of unintended consequences). The right to roam only applies to certain areas of land (moorland, open country, common land)...

Yes, of course - I deal with it on a weekly basis. My response was to HWT, who said that trespass should be a criminal offence. Hi comment wasn't qualified by 'trespass with damage'. And in any case, strong arguments were put forward when this was last proposed that 'damage' would have to be...

Driving on land other than a highway without lawful authority is already a criminal offences under s34 of the Road Traffic Act. And this is also proposed...

Please don't encourage the Government to make trespass a criminal offence. They (the Tories anyway) have suggested it before and failed - and rightly so. >90% of the footpaths and bridleways in this country came into existence because people trespassed - and established a right. And this...