"It has been repeatedly and rightly said that what engages the interest of the public may not be material which engages the public interest."

"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."

"One didn't need to be instructed about what to do, one simply knew what was in one's long-term interests."

"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."

"I regret all that terribly, but when you go tiger shooting, you sort of don t expect the tiger to win."

"every family has a black sheep"

"Hi Mike, do you know the red car's weight distribution?"

Read the full transcipt of the arguments before the World Motor Sport Council by Nigel Tozzi, QC and Henry Peter for Ferrari and Ian Mill, for McLaren.

"...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."

"As a judge, who shall remain nameless, put it to me, the only thing that is fun about being a judge is mobbing up counsel."

"I have to admit we really blew the way we let those attorneys go. You know you've botched it when people sympathise with lawyers."

"the first few strands of a bridge over the raging torrent of misunderstandings and cultural differences."

"Athenian democracy is one thing, the Paris Commune is another."

"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."

"I regret that I cannot order the costs to be paid by the draftmen of the Rent Restrictions Actrs, and the members of the legislature who passed them, and are responsible for the obscurity of the Acts."

"The only question remaining is a question of construction, a question perhaps of some difficulty, arising as it does on one of the least intelligible sections in an Act of Parliament not remarkable for perspicuity"

"I questioned their parentage when they praised my virility...