Hugh Mais

Sir Robert Hugh Mais was a High Court judge in the United Kingdom.

1973 picketing trial

Hugh Mais was selected as the trial judge for the 1973 trial of those including the "Shrewsbury two", Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren, charged in relation to picketing in Shrewsbury.
Speaking in the House of Commons on 23 January 2014 David Anderson MP said:
During the same speech Anderson quoted a 2012 statement from a David Altaras who was a junior barrister at the 1973 trial which said, in relation to the judge Hugh Mais:

Newcastle V sign incident

Mais reportedly once had a man arrested in Newcastle for making a V sign at his car. After the individual was held for two hours Mais accepted his explanation that he had mistaken him for the Mayor.