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John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge on Justice

d. 1894 England

← All quotes by John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

8 quotes

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

The Queen v. Bishop of London (1889)

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

Body v. Halse (1891)

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Reg. v. Ramsey (1886)

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Reg v. Solomons (1890)

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.