The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
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.
They can add all sorts of other charges ... they don't have to throw the book at him at the beginning.
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.
Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.
[Then in 1985,] out of the blue ... I accepted with delight and have never regretted this decision.
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
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.
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.
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