 Cridge did apologise for his outburst at evensong, but would not recognise the authority of the Bishop.In his judgment of October 24, 1874, granting an injunction forbidding Cridge to act as a priest of the diocese, Chief Justice Begbie observed,

His [Bishop Hills'] reluctance to use his power may however,
obviously be imputed to motives of the most christian forbearance …
But if the defendant had been at once in December, 1872,
excluded from the pulpit of Christ Church until due submission,
I should not now have had the most painful duty of attending to this distressing case,
and probably much correspondence of a most disagreeable nature would have been avoided.Begbie had been a member of the cathedral parish and was on the building committee for the new cathedral, but after rendering this verdict, he transferred his membership to St. John the Divine.