Advocate

“Less and fewer. Less applies to a reduced quantity. Fewer applies to a reduced number:”
― David Ross, Advocacy

“Like a dingy London bird among the birds at roost in these pleasant fields, where the sheep are all made into parchment, the goats into wigs, and the pasture into chaff, the lawyer, smoke-dried and faded, dwelling among mankind but not consorting with them, aged without experience of genial youth, and so long used to make his cramped nest in holes and corners of human nature that he has forgotten its broader and better range, comes sauntering home. In the oven made by the hot pavements and hot buildings, he has baked himself dryer than usual; and he has in his thirsty mind his mellowed port-wine half a century old.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“substantial and substantive Don’t mix these adjectives. Substantial means essential, ample, solidly based. Substantive in the legal setting generally means statutory, depending on the written law for its authority.”
― David Ross, Advocacy

“recognises both the power of Courts to protect and regulate their own process as well as their power to develop the common law . . . . The power recognised in s 173 is a key tool for Courts to ensure their own independence and impartiality. It recognises that Courts have the inherent power to regulate and protect their own process. A primary purpose for the exercise of that power must be to ensure that proceedings before Courts are fair. It is therefore fitting that the only qualification on the exercise of that power contained in s 173 is that Courts in exercising this power must take into account the interests of justice.”
― Anonymous