Adjudication Quotes

Nobody likes going to court.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

… adjudged not to him who had the truth on his side, but by the last word in the dispute.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

It's easier being a judge than a competitor. As a judge, you don't have any risks. That makes it much more enjoyable.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.

I came in 1949, and all of us thought the climate was not just ripe for change. We often delay adjudication. [I]t’s [sic] not a question of evading at all. It’s just the practicalities of life – common sense.

When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

In court a man must sail after every wind.

The dispute is still before the judge.

Lawsuits take a long time.

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

Judges in our systems decide on concrete facts and not abstract issues.

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.

After the match-fixing allegations, the one thing I had was patience. It took a lot of time for the courts to come to a verdict regarding the case. Sometimes, there were adjournments, but during that time, I had patience. We fought very hard, and finally justice prevailed, and we got the right verdict.

Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.