"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."

"Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we pr…"

"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread …"

"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt."

"I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their…"

"Beliefs about how you live your life, matters of private decision, views best kept for private enjoyment, prejudice o…"

"A barrister's job is to put the case for the defence as effectively and clearly as would his client if he had an advo…"

"And in spite of David and Jonathan, Hamlet and Horatio, Caesar and Antony, Bush and Blair, women have a greater gift,…"

"The three towering geniuses of European culture, Shakespeare, Mozart and Leonardo da Vinci were not allowed to appear…"

"People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probab…"