“High Court judge presiding in a sodomy case, seeking advice on sentencing: "Could you tell me, what do you think one ought to give a man who allows himself to be buggered?"
Smith: "Oh, thirty shillings or two pounds; whatever you happen to have on you."”
A 1924 entry in Evelyn Waugh's diary, cited in The Times 23 May 2006, Law supplement p.7
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