In his speech to the Peter Taylor memorial lecture "Complexity and Obscurity in the Law, and how we might mitigate them.” Lord Justice Irwin observed "there is a special ring in hell for the advocate who stands up at 10:31 with the words “My Lady, My Lords, I have prepared a Speaking Note which is ...
I am reminded of Mervyn Davies J starting the last morning of the hearing with the words
“Good morning and welcome to the seventeenth day of this three day case”
It was partly him, he was very slow – but not entirely and I will not name the Guilty Men, most of them now dead too.