­Apple has complied with a UK court order to amend the statement it had been ordered to publish on its website - but has done so in a manner that explicitly hides it from the casual visitor.

Apple had been ordered to publish a statement ackowledging that Samsung had not copied its iPad design, but last week was ordered to amend the statement after it was found to have not followed the court order.

The new court order requires a full statement on the home page of Apple's UK website to replace the small text link at the bottom of the page.

However, Apple has now added a code to the website that will always hide the apology notice unless the visitor scrolls down the page. The JavaScript code dynamically resizes the main image on the website so that it is always just a bit too large and pushes the apology note below the screen.

No matter what size computer screen being used, when the homepage is loaded, the court ordered notice will not be immediately visible.

While probably technically compliant with the court order, Apple's deliberate use of JavaScript to make the apology less obvious may annoy the Court, which has already censured Apple twice for its attempts to avoid printing the message.