"A learned County Court judge in a book……" — Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene
"A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got."
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Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene
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