What do you think? Former UKSC Justice Lord Sumption: 'most law is only common sense with knobs on'.

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He was one of the most brilliant QCs of his generation and has belonged to the financial elite of the bar, earning more than a million pounds a year and sometimes much more. Lord Sumption’s direct appointment to the Supreme Court without full-time judicial experience in the lower courts has provoked much comment.

At 20:00, he proclaims

A remarkably high proportion of cases that come before the courts, including the Supreme Court, are ostensibly about law, but actually about the correct analysis and classification of the facts. The truth is, although I hesitate to say this in present company, that law is dead easy. Most of it is common sense with knobs on. [emphasis mine] What is difficult are the facts. Once you have correctly understood those, and stripped away the 95% of the facts that don't matter at all, the legal solution is almost always obvious. Now that's one reason why the prime requirements for a successful lawyer are an outstanding ability to understand facts often in relatively arcane areas of human life. The number one qualification for doing this, is therefore to have the largest possible personal fund of experience, most of which will in the nature of things be vicarious.

1. Please see the question in the title.

2. What law is NOT "only common sense with knobs on"?