... Brian Green QC, a member of the same stable, Wilberforce Chambers, as leading Counsel for the unsuccessful party in Abacus. Such an appeal has decided advantages over an appeal to the Court of Appeal: (1) there is no requirement of giving notice of the appeal to anyone and the judge has no right to be heard; (2) there is no limitation of the issues raised to those raised before the judge; (3) there is no limitation of the arguments advanced to those advanced before the judge; and (4) there is no further appeal. Judges become accustomed to viewing in silence and with amused (or bemused) detachment the subsequent deconstruction of their judgments. Moses himself, the story 1 reads, when brought back to this world could not recognise in developed Jewish law the founding principles which he had himself laid down. In Abacus it was not argued before me, and it ...

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