There is a point where the courts are being misused by constant and continuing efforts to keep a proceeding open instead of accepting the determination that has been made and moving on.

In this appeal, the Court is called upon to answer the age-old question: If a tree falls in the forest and you are not around to replant it, how does it affect your taxes?   2013 CarswellNat 1469 Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd.

The fact that the concept of time has not been lassoed by science so that one can travel back in time, making it impossible to physically make 54 … payments from 2005 to 2009, does not strip the support from maintaining its periodic nature.

"Are civil trials the legal equivalent of green eggs and ham?"

"All I am saying is that, in constitutional terms, flowers are on their own."

"[T]urned up, to use Mr. Coles' terminology, "higher than a kite". Mr. Coles paid him $50 to go away."

Ultimately this litigation has a certain Alice in Wonderland quality.

"Alice in Wonderland in comparison looks like a normal regime."

"[T]o abandon the path of principle and to determine admissibility on the basis of an imaginary set of circumstances."

"[S]ome Alice-in-Wonderland country of benign banking practices with which I am unfamiliar."

"Anyway, it can forcefully be argued that judgments of the Court of Appeal are like a good wine and improve with age."

"The parties to these proceedings are either unaware of that classic novel's lesson or unenlightened by it."