“WE NEED MORE ACCESS”
Trespass is a strange phenomenon. From lawyers to landowners to stray ramblers, there are few people out there who really understand it.
On the one hand, trespass is no big deal: everyone does it. It lives in the English psyche like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine, evoking pantomime images of wily bounders being chased over the hill by a farmer and his shotgun. But then on the other hand, if you’ve ever done it, you might have come face to face with an altogether nastier side of trespass: an aggressive response from stewards of the land that is vastly disproportionate to the act itself – a moral indignation that seems to view your walk in the countryside as a heinous act, a threat to the very order of civil society.
In legal terms, you are trespassing if you
