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One cannot look too closely at and weigh in too golden scales the acts of men hot in their political excitement.

— Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton Ex parte Castioni (1890)

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No system of judicature can be suggested in which occasionally failure to insure complete justice may not arise.

The Queen v. Miles (1890)

Every man ought to have the fullest opportunity of establishing his innocence if he can.

Queen v. Dennis (1894)

Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.

Roberts v. Jones; Willey v. Great Northern Railway Co (1891)

If the plaintiff could have gone away from the dangerous place without incurring the risk of losing his means of livelihood, the case might have been different; but he was obliged to be there; his poverty, not his will, consented to incur the danger.

Thrussell v. Handyside, L.R. 20 Q.B.D. 359, 364 (1888)

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