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 verses of the poem read (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. :New structures but an old foundation stone: :The "mind of Justice" still at liberty :Four nations separate but linked as one: :The "light of reason" falling equally.