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date: 18 January 2025

Lord Denning 1899–1999
British judge 

  1. To every subject of this land, however powerful, I would use Thomas Fuller's words over three hundred years ago, ‘Be ye never so high, the law is above you.’
    in a High Court ruling against the Attorney-General, January 1977; see Fuller