Excerpt from Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 8: Forming a Continuation of "the Parliamentary History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803"; Third Series, Commencing With the Accession of William IV; Comprising the Period From the Fifth Day of Oct., To the Twentieth Day of Oct., 1831

That he was anxious to see the details of this Bill, in order that he might form a judgment of what their probable effect would be. He wished to God the noble Marquis were present now, impartially to determine whether the Commissioners should remain as they were, or whether this plan, or something like it, should be substituted. He would allude to those points upon which the present Bill got rid of many of the great and long-lived abuses which had hitherto disgraced this branch of our law. His hon. And learned friend, however, who he was glad to see was at that moment resuming his seat, had asserted that the present Bill would beget a multiplication of appeals. In the first place, said be, there is an appeal from the decision of the one Commissioner to the Subdivision Court. Upon that point, his hon. And learned friend was mistaken - there was no such appeal. The manner in which that part of the Bill was to ope rate was this - I f the single Commissioner, whose duties were limited, had any doubt upon his mind upon any point, either of law or of fact, which might arise before him, instead of appealing to the Subdivi sion Court, he called in the aid of some of his brother Commissioners, and, with their assistance, determined the question at once. Nothing, in his Opinion, could be a more judicious or convenient mode of settling preliminary difficulties. Still it was said, you have no end to appeal, be cause from the decision, whether of the one or of the three Commissioners of the Subdivision Court, you have an appeal to the Court of Review. It was for this that be praised this Bill, because it substituted a summary mode of proceeding, which would Operate cheaply and quickly, for the long, and tedious, and ruinous system which had hitherto prevailed. By one of the provisions of the Bill, the Judges of the Court of Review were empowered to form rules for the practice of that Court and of the Subdivision Court. Now sup posing one of the rules to be, that the Commissioners singly, or formed into a Subdivision Court, should have a short hand writer to take down all these deci sions, or perhaps take notes of all that.

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