David Blunkett Quotes

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

300 million Americans every day decide to settle their disputes in courts of law rather than settle them in the streets with sticks and stones.

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

there shall be in every court, three justices or commissioners, who shall sit with the twelve men of the neighborhood, with them to hear all causes, and to assist the said twelve men of the neighborhood in case of law; and that they the said justices shall pronounce such judgment as they shall receive from, and be directed by the said twelve men in whom only the judgment resides, and not otherwise.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

When 'The People's Court' came along, I had an opportunity to really teach people about law. It was very important to me.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

The minute that you go to arbitration, it's 100% confidential, so nobody ever hears about it.

Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts - with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.

Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.

I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution.

What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.

Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.

The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

Lawsuits take a long time.