Court of Session - Website for the Court of Session in Edinburgh. Contains contact details, decisions, judges and rules of court.
District Court Locations - Scottish Court Service guide to locations and contact details for District Courts in Scotland.
District Courts Association - Site explaining the District Courts system in Scotland, the types of cases it deals with, sentencing powers and its position in the overall Scottish court hierarchy.
Guide to the Scots Courts - University of Glasgow guide to the Scots Courts on the popular Guide to Scots Law pages.
House of Lords Judgments - Judgments of the House of Lords, the highest civil court in Scotland, delivered since 14 November 1996 and published by the court itself.
The Scottish Court Service - Providing information on court locations with a searchable base of court opinions.
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission - The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission was set up to deal with criminal law cases where an individual feels there has been a miscarriage of justice. It is the only criminal review commision in Scotland and will deal with cases after they have been turned down by the Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal.
Sheriff Court Locations - Scottish Court Service guide to the locations and contact details of Sheriff Courts in Scotland.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Legal System Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Legal System
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Legal System We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Legal System
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
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-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Legal System
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Legal System He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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-- Josh Billings No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Legal System
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Legal System I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Legal System
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Legal System For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Legal System
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Legal System "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Legal System
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Legal System Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Legal System
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Legal System America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Legal System
