Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Last Resort (1983)

Bill Fraser: Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham

Quotes 

• Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Mr Rumpole, I believe you have a taste for poetry. You will no doubt remember the quotation about "The Law's delays"?

  Horace Rumpole : Ah yes, My Lord. It comes in the same passage which deals with "The Insolence of Office".

• [Frank Armstrong is accused of renting out non-existent holiday locations] 

  Ward-Webster : On one occasion at least, a mobile home was actually removed from an unhappy mother just as she was about to enter it.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Instead of the mother running away from home, the home ran away from the mother.

  [jury laughs] 

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  Oh well done, Bull, quite the stand-up comic.

• [Judge Bullingham is examining photographs of Frank Armstrong's holiday park, and pointing out features to the jury] 

  Ward-Webster : I'd like to ask you now about your Cornish site for Free As Air Holidays Ltd. Your Lordship and the jury have the photographs in Exhibit 3.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Hardly looks like the Garden of Eden, does it, members of the jury.

  [jury laughs] 

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : It appears to be next door to an industrial tip.

  [jury laughs] 

  Frank Armstrong : Looking in the other direction, there *is* an uninterrupted view of the sea.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Oh, yes. Between the crane and the second lorry.

  [jury laughs] 

  Frank Armstrong : A great deal of our patrons' time is spent on the beach, my Lord.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Perhaps they want a quiet night.

  [jury laughs]