Part of Poet Laureate Andrew Motion's poem "Lines for The Supreme Court" (1999–2009) which is engraved on to a semicircular stone bench opposite the entrance to Middlesex Guildhall. The relevant verse of the poem reads (with the words pictured italicized): :A thousand years of judgment stretch behind – :The weight of "rights" and freedoms balancing :With fairness and with duty to the world: :The clarity time-"honoured" thinking brings.