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Trial by jury is more than an instrument of justice and more than one wheel of the constitution: it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
Lord Devlin
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Lord Devlin
Born:
November 25, 1905
Died:
August 9, 1992
(aged 86)
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Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin was a British lawyer, judge and jurist. He wrote a report on Britain's involvement in Nyasaland in 1959.
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