Kuala Lampur, Dec. 6 -- - "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

The above are the first two lines of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar (Act III, Scene II) by William Shakespeare - one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works.

The second line above was bastardised by the Honourable T F Bathurst, Chief Justice of the Australian state of New South Wales (June 2011 - March 2022) as follows: "I don't come to bury judges, nor to praise them."

It appeared in the first line of his paper: "Who judges the judges, and how should they be judged?" presented at the Opening of Law Term Address, Sydney, on January 30, 2019.

The former Chief Justice then went on to th...