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" The only thing I knew would make my grandmother more proud than watching my TV courtroom was to see me dressed up in white tie doing the foxtrot. "

" I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly. "

" Let's start spreading work experience and opportunities a little wider so that the photographers, writers, and TV producers of tomorrow are drawn from a broader section of society. "

" I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it's here, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that. "

" I really want to emphasise this - 'Strictly' is a positive show. It's interesting that it gets cast into this, understandably, the ordinary net of reality shows, but there's no part of it which feels nihilistic or unpleasant. It's all about learning something and doing well, and you feel this overwhelming sense of people wanting you to do well. "

" The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment. "

" I realise I'm known for doing big, very serious cases, but fundamentally, any lawyer will tell you that even the most complex trials come down to the same questions. Are people telling porky pies? Are bank accounts dodgy? Is someone trying to get one over on you? It's my job to listen and then decide. "

" As a lawyer, I've dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims' families. When you hear it from the mouths of victims, your entire approach changes, because it could happen to anybody, and they articulate that in such a powerful way. "

" We need to be able to turn to our immediate circle to ascertain whether our internal checks and balances are functional and to be able to rely on them to point out gross errors. "

" Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours. "

" It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared. "

" If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published. "

" I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference. "

" If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, then they are entitled to compensation. "

" The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests. "

" One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre. "

" I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar. "

" From time to time, I definitely look witheringly, which is why I'm well known. "

" I don't want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge. "

" I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison. "

" Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case. "

" The difficulty with American television is it's pot luck. "

" I wish I had a filter; then, I'd suspect, who knows? I'd perhaps have more friends. "

" If you are concerned you are the victim of illegal corporate surveillance, you should seek specialist - and independent - legal advice at once. "

" I didn't get into fitness until my late twenties. I had put on a lot of weight; I was quite chubby and feeling really depressed. But exercise helped everything - the body and the mind. "

" There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows? "

" I hope I'm always appropriate on 'JR' if it's a serious case. But if you have a case of a man who has a wardrobe malfunction with a lime green mankini, even I on the odd occasion find it mildly amusing. "

" Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill. "

" When somebody teaches you to love something, you never forget that! It's such a generous thing to do. "

" My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn't even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break - I can't help but wonder if I would be so lucky today. "