JB/081/324/001

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1920. April ++ 27
Petition
4 4
Supplement
§.2 Elucidation
Petty Sessions
Evil. 2. Optional

Non-attendance In this respect worse
is the summary than the
regular .

Such, even in the summarily-proceeding
branch of the existing system, such, by means of the organisation
given to the corresponding branch of the Judicial
Establishment, is the condition of the people in respect
of justice. It is even worse than under the regularly-proceeding
branch of that same system. No such
consummately licentious liberty of perpetuating injustice,
and reaping net profit from corruption, is enjoyed, even
by their superordinates in the scale of judicial authority —
the Judges of the Common Law Westminster Hall Courts
all or any of them.

Take for example the King's Bench
1. Attendance is therein in such sort obligatory, that not
without drawing upon his conduct in this respect the
scrutiniziing eye of the public opinion tribunal, with looks
inquiring into the cause, could he allow himself this liberty.

On the part of the Chief Justice, by whom is
determined that opinion which, unless contradicted, is the
opinion of all four such declaration, even in explicit terms
is matter of absolute necessity.

On the part of the three Puisnes, the obligation
is not indeed there irresistible: the force of it Is however far
from inconsiderable.

2. So likewise in every individual case regarded as of adequate
importance, obligatory, in the same manner are positive declarations
of opinion; with or without reasons for the support of it.

"You were on this occasion present. By your Chief, a decision was
"pronounced: by you, of dissent from it, no intimation was conveyed.
On the contrary, in your hearing, by him intimation
"was given that your assent had been given to it. Silence (says
"the proverb" gives consent. Many are the cases in which, thus
"saying, it says true, and if there be a case in which it is true,
"this of yours is of the number beyond dispute." Such is the
speech, which, in the case in question, each of the three will conceive himself as
hearing, from the lips of Public Opinion, that so powerfully beneficial
though allegorical and fictitious personage.

No such warning voice is heard by the corruptly-acting
Justice of the Peace, acting in Petty Sessions, (not to speak of
General Sessions,): in confederacy with the rest, bound to him by
the bands of a community of sinister interest.

Identifier: | JB/081/324/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	324	Info in main headings field	petition
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / d27 / e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	1828
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	26111
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