Legal quotes

evercloserunion

Hey all, in an attempt to avoid studying I am thinking of creating a Linux fortune cookie consisting of humorous and insightful legal quotes - quotes relating to the law, from judges, academics, practitioners etc. I'm looking for suggestions, and I also just think it'd be interesting to have a thread where people post interesting legal quotes they comes across.

To set the ball rolling here are two I like:
Given the frequency with which the weather forecast predicts dreary wet weather, the enthusiasm of commercial enterprises to sponsor it may come as a surprise. - Kelly J in Smart Telecom v RTÉ


And of course:
In summertime village cricket is a delight to everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in the County of Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good clubhouse for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team plays there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings they practice while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play anymore. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket, but now this adjoining field has been turned into a housing estate. The newcomer bought one of the houses on the edge of the cricket field. No doubt the open space was a selling point. Now he complains that when a batsman hits a six the ball has been known to land in his garden or on or near his house. His wife has got so upset about it that they always go out at weekends. They do not go into the garden when cricket is being played. They say that this is intolerable. So they asked the judge to stop the cricket being played. And the judge, much against his will, has felt that he must order the cricket to be stopped: with the consequence, I suppose, that the Lintz Cricket Club will disappear. The cricket ground will be turned to some other use. I expect for houses or a factory. The young men will turn to other things instead of cricket. The whole village will be much poorer. And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there
next to the cricket ground. - Lord Denning, Miller v Jackson

sh_o

evercloserunion wrote: »

... And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there
next to the cricket ground.[/I] - Lord Denning, Miller v Jackson

Hard to tell from this what the outcome would be