“Parliament has made it abundantly clear in those sections of the Criminal Code having to do with the form of indictments and informations that the punctilio of an earlier age is no longer to bind us.”

“He retains a detailed knowledge of uniforms and parade punctilio, and his sartorial finery is legendary within the Waitati Militia.”

“He was the profane rube who had a mystical obsession with grammatical punctilio and syntactical clarity.”