Steven Pacey Quotes

• Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's respect by communicating to them that you're going to listen, follow the law and make a fair decision.

  Steven Pacey

  Children, Law, Judging

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• As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people.

  Steven Pacey

  Pensamiento, Personas, Expectativas

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• By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

  Steven Pacey

  Jobs, Thinking, Judging

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• You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a crime). They are not very objective about their situation.

  Steven Pacey

  Suing, Patient, Crime

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• You really don't want to go to court and have the judge decide based on whether or not they're your friend, because you don't want to be thinking that the (judge's) friend is on the other side (of the court case).

  Steven Pacey

  Thinking, Judging, Want

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• When I was in court I was the judge; when I was out of court I wasn't. Most people didn't address me as judge when I was in public.

  Steven Pacey

  People, Judging, Addresses

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• One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.

  Steven Pacey

  Judging, Listening, Evaluation

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• I have tried to make sure I knew the law and what the most recent changes were, and I've applied the law to the facts. I have not lost sleep over the decisions I have made.

  Steven Pacey

  Sleep, Law, Decision

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• I sleep well. In my entire legal career, I have not lost much sleep at night worrying about things, because I've done what I could do in the time I had, and I've got some rest.

  Steven Pacey

  Sleep, Night, Careers

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• I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case.

  Steven Pacey

  Important, Trying, Next

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• You want a judge who makes objective decisions, and that's why temperament is such an important component of being a judge. You have to earn people's respect, because they know that you are deciding the case based on the facts and the law, not because they're trying to be your friend.

  Steven Pacey

  Law, Judging, People

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• Echaré de menos el contacto con la gente, el privilegio de intentar comunicar a la gente cada día que el sistema judicial va a funcionar para ellos como se supone que debe funcionar. Eso no garantiza que vayan a obtener el resultado que desean, pero el tribunal va a escuchar y cumplir la ley e intentar tomar una decisión justa. Es un privilegio y una responsabilidad increíbles que echaré de menos.

  Steven Pacey

  Responsabilidad, Derecho, Personas

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