Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley - Court Quotes

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It appears to me wrong in principle for any Court or Judge to impose fetters on the exercise by themselves or others of powers which are left by law to their discretion in each case as it arises.

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley
I know of no duty of the Court which it is more important to observe, and no powers of the Court which it is more important to enforce, than its power of keeping public bodies within their rights. The moment public bodies exceed their rights, they do so to the injury and oppression of private individuals, and those persons are entitled to be protected from injury arising from such operations of public bodies.

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley
Unless Parliament has conferred upon the Court that power in language which is unmistakable, the Court is not to assume that Parliament intended to do that which so seriously affect foreigners who are not resident here, and might give offence to foreign Governments. Unless Parliament has used such plain terms as show that they really intended us to do that, we ought not to do it.

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley
I do not mean to say that the Court could not give leave to amend, but I cannot conceive that the Court would listen to an application for leave to amend after the trial. That could not have been intended: it would be opposed to all principles of justice.

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley
As no Court has ever attempted to define fraud, so no Court has ever attempted to define undue influence, which includes one of its many varieties.

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley