Appeal Quote by John Mortimer

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

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

I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met…

— Rebecca Hall

I was fined £20,000 for TV interview where I barely said anything. The FA brought an outside barrister in to do me. A big…

— Neil Warnock

Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to me. They had nothing to…

— John Mortimer

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

“Lord Westbury, it is said, rebuffed a barrister’s reliance upon an earlier opinion of his by stating, “I can only say that I am…

— Charles M. Sevilla

“But they argued as lawyers do, they twisted every answer I gave until it sounded like the opposite meaning, and I became so confused…

— S.J. Parris

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

— Jeremy Bentham

There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them…

— John Mortimer

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

— Anonymous

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a…

— Sergio De La Pava