[Then in 1985,] out of the blue ... I accepted with delight and have never regretted this decision. |
A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable. |
Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do. |
I have decided to say one or two words about Iraq, but more of that on Tuesday. |
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy, |
I'm rather hoping this is a unique case, because as far as I know it is the first time the Government has challenged the composition of the House of Lords and I rather hope they will never do it again. |
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. |
Perhaps Mr Blair should know that when he talks about the rules of the game he should know this is not a game; this is a deathly serious and earnest matter, and that what we [the judges] do apply is the law. |
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. |
The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chance or inadvertence, and shedding them in a fit of absentmindedness. |
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion |
They can add all sorts of other charges ... they don't have to throw the book at him at the beginning. |