Although his practice was based in Brisbane, he was senior counsel for the Alliance Party in Lord Denning's arbitration in Fiji Sugar Industry in 1969 ; in 1972, senior prosecutor in the long-running trial for the murder of the District Commissioner in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea ; and, in 1974, senior counsel for the Northern Land Council in the Woodward Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory.

Note that Lord Denning's judgment was held not to represent the law in National Westminster Bank Ltd v Morgan.

This passage was used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case Liversidge v. Anderson ( 1942 ), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords.

In name of my “ God ”, the most gracious, the most merciful, all praise and thanks to my “ God ”, the Lord of universe, the most gracious, the most merciful, Master ( of the ) day, the judgement, You alone we worships and you alone we ask for help, Guide us, the path, the straight.

His skills of leadership and practical judgement were hailed by British statesmen — his opponents in the freedom struggle — such as Lord Wavell, Cripps, Pethick-Lawrence and Mountbatten.

The Lord of Appeal Lord Lane was personally critical of Fred Mulley, the Secretary of State for Education and Science for being " far from frank " about his reason for intervening in Tameside and joined in the judgement which found for Tameside and brought a halt to comprehensivisation.

" On weekdays, the signature of the eleventh blessing is changed from " Blessed are You, O Lord, King who loves justice and judgement " to " Blessed are You, O Lord, the King of judgement.

One Trinity professor, Lord Acton, enchanted the young Trevelyan with his great wisdom and his belief in moral judgement and individual liberty.

:" from henceforth and for ever everyone being of the council of the Province and any other gentleman of able judgement summoned by writ ( and the Lord of every Manor within this Province after Manors be erected ) shall and may have his voice, seat, and place in every General Assembly ... together with two or more able and sufficient men for the hundred as the said freedmen or the major part of them ... shall think good ".

His promotion was met with approval from several noted judges, including Frederick Greer, later a Lord Justice of Appeal, who wrote that " Unless my judgement is very much astray, you will quickly acquire a leading place in the front row ", a feeling which was echoed by other justices including William Finlay, who wrote that " I am confident that you will rise to the top of the profession, and I shall very greatly rejoice when my confidence is justified.

:" from henceforth and for ever everyone being of the council of the Province and any other gentleman of able judgement summoned by writ ( and the Lord of every Manor within this Province after Manors be erected ) shall and may have his voice, seat, and place in every General Assembly ... together with two or more able and sufficient men for the hundred as the said freedmen or the major part of them ... shall think good ".

However, the judgement by Lord Justice Laws held that certain statutes of constitutional importance, including Magna Carta and the European Communities Act 1972, could not be repealed by implied repeal.

In his judgement, Lord Bingham of Cornhill observed:

Barristan Selmy submits to Daenery's judgement ; she forgives him and makes him Lord Commander of her Queensguard ; however, Mormont still insists that he did nothing wrong, and thus she banishes him for his betrayal.

I do you no wrong, Virgin: you have chosen a life of chastity on account of the present distress: you determined on the course in order to be holy in body and spirit: be not proud: you and your married sisters are members of the same Church … Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgement, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

This behaviour provoked a riot amongst the onlookers and condemnation in the courts, where the Lord Chief Justice gave his opinion that it was because of wretches like him " that God's anger and judgement hang over us ".

However, Mr Justice Eady, the presiding judge in the case, said he decided not to refer the matter to the Attorney General with regard to possible perjury charges, as disclosure in the judgement of Lord Browne's behaviour was " probably sufficient punishment ", adding Browne's " willingness to tell a deliberate lie to the court, persisted in for about two weeks, ... is relevant in assessing his own credibility ...

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Furthermore he argued that Lord Hutton's " judgement is so unbalanced in its treatment of the BBC and of Downing Street and the MoD as to be worthless " except as a way for Tony Blair to " escape " from an investigation on " whether or not he did take us to war on a false prospectus ".

Lord Harris later said that his two fielders in the point and cover positions, being side on to the crease, had a good view of the incident, and that they agreed with Coulthard's judgement.

In 1772, Lord Mansfield's judgement in the Somersett's Case emancipated a slave in England, which helped launch the movement to abolish slavery.

* In Bratty, Lord Denning observed obiter that a crime committed while sleepwalking would appear to him to be one committed as an automaton.

" In the 1963 case Bratty v Attorney-General for Northern Ireland, Lord Morris stated, " Each set of facts must require a careful examination of its own circumstances, but if by way of taking an illustration it were considered possible for a person to walk in his sleep and to commit a violent crime while genuinely unconscious, then such a person would not be criminally liable for that act.

Allegiance is owed both to the Sovereign as a natural person and to the Sovereign in the political capacity ( Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 ( per Lord Coleridge CJ )).

In Aberdeen Ry v Blaikie ( 1854 ) 1 Macq HL 461 Lord Cranworth stated in his judgment that:

In England and Wales, exemplary damages are limited to the circumstances set out by Lord Patrick Devlin in the leading case of Rookes v. Barnard.

George Gordon, Lord Haddo ( 1674 – aft. 1694 ), d. v. p. s. p.

As Lord Millet, sitting as a non-permanent justice on the Court of Final Appeal, aptly summarised the position in China Field Limited v Appeal Tribunal ( Buildings ),

They lack the feature of novelty or accident, which is the basis of the distinction drawn by Lord Diplock in R v Sullivan 1984 AC 156, 172.

Lord Denning, first of the High Court of Justice, later of the Court of Appeal, provided a famous example of this evolutionary process in his development of the concept of estoppel starting in the High Trees case: Central London Property Trust Ltd v. High Trees House Ltd K. B.

As a result, Lord Bridge stated he was " undeterred by the consideration that the decision in Anderton v Ryan was so recent.

Section 6 of the Statute of Frauds Amendment Act 1828 ( commonly known as Lord Tenterden's Act ) was enacted to prevent section 4 of the 1677 Act being circumvented by bringing an action for the tort of deceit ( the tort in Freeman v. Palsey ).

In Ludditt v Ginger Coote Airways the Privy Council ( Lord Macmillan, Lord Wright, Lord Porter and Lord Simonds ) held the liability of a public or common carrier of passengers is only to carry with due care.

In R v Ireland, R v Burstow, Lord Steyn said:

In MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, the Scottish Court of Session ruled against the plaintiffs, finding that the Queen's title was a matter of her own choice and prerogative.

In England and Wales, exemplary damages are limited to the circumstances set out by Lord Devlin in the leading case of Rookes v. Barnard:

Lord Denning, in Miller v. Minister of Pensions, described it simply as " more probable than not.

Over a century later, it was decided in the case of Penn v. Lord Baltimore that because the Dutch had colonized Zwaanendael in 1631, that portion of Maryland's charter granting Delaware to Maryland was void.

* Adie v Fennilitteau ( 1 Cox, 24 ) by the Lords Commissioners Lord Loughborough, Ashhurst, and Hotham, in April 1783, a trustee laid out trust money in South Sea annuities ; they afterwards fell in their price, and though it was in the same fund in which the greatest part of the testator's personal estate was at his death invested, their Lordships held it to be an improper investment ; and that the trustee should abide the loss.

* Lord Upjohn, speaking of the allocation of beneficial interests between the parties under a constructive trust in National Provincial Bank Ltd v Ainsworth, said that the parties ' affairs are sometimes so inextricably intermixed that " an equitable knife must be used to sever the Gordian Knot ".

So, for example, in the criminal law case of R v. Rimmington ( 2005 ) UKHL 63 Lord Bingham said " Where Parliament has defined the ingredients of an offence.

In 1781, when deciding Bywater v. Lord Advocate, the House recognised that prior to the Union, the High Court of Justiciary had been the court of last resort in Scottish criminal cases.