William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher: Quotes about thinking

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

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher: 32 quotes 0 likes

“To my mind when a great Judge, a master of the whole subject, thinking it necessary for the decision of the case to carefully examine into and to state the practice, it is nothing to say as against that, that it was not necessary for the decision.”

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

Ex parte Bell Cox (1887), 57 L. J. (N. S.) Q. B. 103.

Thinking , Decision

“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.

Law , Question , Thinking

“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.

Question , Thinking , Decision