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An honest blunder in the use of the language is not dishonest... What is honest is not dishonest.

— Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen Angus v. Clifford (1891)

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It is a Reasonable presumption that a man who sleeps upon his rights has not got much right.

Ex parte Hall; In re Wood (1883)

The Court must never forget, and will never forget, first of all, the rights of family life which are sacred.

Courts do not exist for the sake of discipline, but for the sake of deciding matters in controversy.

Cropper v. Smith (1884)

The only case in which I can conceive a person having breakfast over night is that he is not likely to have it next morning.

Judges, like Caesar's wife, should be above suspicion.

Leeson v. General Council of Medical Education and Registration (1889)

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