William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher: Doing

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher was British lawyer, judge and politician. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“An amendment ought not to be allowed if it will occasion injustice; but if it can do no injustice, and will only save expense, it ought to be made.”

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

Roberts v. Plant (1895), L. R. 1 Q. B. D. [1895], p. 603.

“Working days in England are not the same as working days in foreign ports, because working days in England, by the custom and habits of the English, if not by their law, do not include Sundays.”

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

Nielsen v. Wait (1885), L. R. 16 Q. B. 71.

“I agree that is the law, though I think it is a hard law; but we have nothing to do with the question of hardship.”

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

In re Perkins (1890), L. R. 24 Q. B. D. 618.

“I do not think that a Judge would wish any statement which he may have made in the course of a case, merely obiter and casually, to be treated as necessarily being an authority on the subject in question; but when a Judge has thought it necessary for the purpose of a case to make a deliberate examination of the practice of his Court, and to state such practice, I do not think the authority of such statement can be got rid of merely by arguing that it was not really necessary for the actual decision of the case. I think that such a statement if cited as an authority is entitled to great weight, though of course not binding on us as a decision.”

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

Ex parte Rev. James Bell Cox (1887), L. R. 20 Q. B. D. 19.