"This Court must recognize that its duty to the nation and to the law in the instant case is far greater than that duty which Chief Baron Pollock faced in Byrne v. Boadle. "
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm wondering about this argument; i.e. the tone of it. Does this kind kind of hectoring, "stamp-foot like a spoiled child and pay attention to me" rhetoric take you very far in front of a bank of judges?