“It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.”

1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 134.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)

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British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician 1820–1894

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