The Supreme Court however a recent European court judgment had left UK judges "in no doubt as the seriousness of the breach, which has been continuing for more than five years, nor as to the responsibility on the national court to secure compliance".
In the highly charged, chaotic atmosphere of Al Sadr City, snap judgments have left many people dead.
That left critics to suggest he has a habit of complacency or frayed judgment that has left him hastening to catch up as events unravel.
Bernie Ecclestone might have won his High Court battle against the German media company Constantin Medien, but the 104-page judgment handed down has left the all-powerful boss of Formula 1 more vulnerable than ever before.
(Judge comes into court confessing he has left the judgment he is meant to read in his country cottage. "Fax it up, m'lord," says counsel. "Yes it does, rather").
She becomes more like what the culture seems to want from "liberation" — a woman who has left the judgment of others behind, who doesn't give a damn, who in her new omniscience sees both past and future clearly — and less like any recognizable human being who has ever lived.
In his 1632-35 painTheg The Judgment of Paris, the goddess Athene has left her shield propped against a tree.
Moreover, although Judge Wheeler noted that payment from the Judgment Fund is a "path Congress has left open," Congress also could block that path, simply by enacting a law barring it as a source of risk corridor claims, even with a court order.
The judgment said: "We have left open for further argument the question as to whether prior hereto there has been such a breach".
