Central bank Quote by Charles M. Sevilla

But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his…

— Robert H. Jackson

“There must be evidence somewhere, you know. I know you've all worked like beavers, but I'm going to work like a king beaver. and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".”

— Bryce Courtenay

“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Lord Thornton,” the Lord Chancellor was saying to Ian as Ian slowly rose, “it is the finding of this commission that you are innocent…

— Judith McNaught

When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those…

— Nicholas Hammond

“My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace,…

— Molière

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve…

— Vince Cable

It's barrister behaviour to say what you think will appeal to the person you're talking to, whoever it happens to be, whether it's true…

— John Mortimer

“He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of…

— Robert Galbraith

The reality is that when you're a barrister, you're trained, and you've got ethical structures. You've got to follow the evidence, and that's that.

— Robert Rinder