"It is not for the defendants to pay for the privilege of watching that vendetta played out (which is the likely outcome, since neither man has the means or, in the claimant's case, the will, to pay the defendants' costs), and certainly not for the court to provide a referee, pitch and staff to allow such a dispute to be hosted at public expense."

"The resources of the judicial system are barely sufficient to afford justice without unreasonable delay to those who do have genuine grievances, and should not be squandered on those who do not."

"If a history of criminal legislation ever comes to be written it is unlikely that the 2003 (Sexual Offence) Act will be identified as a year of exemplary skill in the annals of Parliamentary drafting."

"...it has nothing to do with what can be bought in bakeries - the title was translated as 'Maitre des petits pains'. The office of Master of the Rolls is the second oldest surviving judicial office in England and Wales."

"This was a decision of a distinguished Court of Appeal heard and determined on one day, 5th August, perilously close to the long vacation without citation of any of the relevant authorities."

"He must be a bold, if not a conceited, man who can feel confidence in forming, or expressing, an opinion on any one of the problems that arise out of what may be cited together as the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920 to 1939, but, having once more groped my way about that chaos of verbal darkness, I have come to the conclusion, with all becoming diffidence, that the county court judge was wrong in this case. My diffidence is increased by finding that my brother Luxmore has groped his way to the contrary conclusion."