Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet: Quotes about laws

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet was British judge. Explore interesting quotes on law.
Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet: 42 quotes0 likes

“The law of England is anxious for the interests of persons against whom charges may be made. If a man commits a crime, there is a legal and constitutional mode by which that crime may be brought into discussion. He is liable to be tried, but though his crime may be as great and as aggravated as possible, he ought to have a full, fair, dispassionate, and temperate investigation of his conduct at the time of trial.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 162.
Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)

“[T]ake it to be the bounden duty of the Judge to lay down the law as it strikes him, and that of the jury to accede to it, unless they have superior knowledge on the subject.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 130.
Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)

“There may be cases in which there is so much of difficulty in knowing where the law stands that we take time to consider, and sometimes doubt much and sometimes differ among ourselves. But I believe every one of the Judges acts upon the principle that he is before man and God in the discharge of his duty, and acts upon his solemn oath, and declares tbe law not according to any political fancy, or for the purposes of serving one party or serving another, but according to the pure conviction of his own mind without looking to any party.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

Case of Edmonds and others (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 899.

“Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

King v. Woolf (1819), 1 Chit. 423.

“If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if he does that legally, there is no objection to it.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 484.
Trial of Hunt and others (King v. Hunt) (1820)

“The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.”

Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn (1824), 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159.