JB/004/383/001

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1831. Oct 14.
Bankruptcy Court Bill.

Secresy thus made to
envelop this part of
judicial procedure
which of most other
stands in need of
publicity.

No other subject
matter of judicature
from attention to
which ore useful
information and
warning might be
derived or frauds
and imprudencies
prevented.

True that under existing
practice the first
meeting of Commissioners
is termed private
but there all such
privacy ends.

Of this privacy what
the need or use. To this
question no answer afforded
by any of the books
of Bankruptcy.

For the present suffice
it to observe that after
this first meeting all
other meetings are termed
public meetings.

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"Rules to be hereafter
made" – made in secresy
under the influence of
the Noble and Learned
amateur of secresy.

But can Lord Brougham
have determined on
deliberate acts of
tyranny and cruelty?
Oh no! no deliberate
plan but only a little
giddiness such as
a sudden elevation
is apt to produce.

Not but that in this
secresy he had either
some sinister design –
some fee-gathering plan
– or else whilst penning
these secresy sections
he was thinking of something
very different – hydrostatics
for Useful
Knowledge or Mathematics for Royal
Society.

Ministers will
regret the sending
themselves to this job.

Conclusion
How J.B. advocates
secresy.

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Difficulty of reporting
proceedings before
Commissioners owing to
the defective procedure.
Each Commissioner
occupied about business
different from
that which the
others are.

Conversation across
the table difficult to
be heard, or relating
to documents not
read – Commissions
more than one in
one and the same
room at one and
the same time.

Noise of creditors
discussing and squabbling.

Tradesmen complain
of want of publicity
by which great criminals
are allowed
to prey on the community.

Insolvent Debtor
Court Procedure
in this respect defective.

On the discharge of
the debtor only is the
examination public
as in Common Law
Courts – and consequently
reported in
the public journals.

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Secresy

Consequent dread
of the public examination
by insolvents.

Lord Brougham's
proposed patronage
of the Bankruptcy
Court.

Identifier: | JB/004/383/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1831-10-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	383	Info in main headings field	bankruptcy court bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	george bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	2304
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