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Police Report 3
II. Prosecution
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The pCourts the proceedings
of which stand most in
need of publicity, have
the least
That any particulars relative to the administration
of justice should remain not only
unknown but unknowable, may be considered
as a and mark of barbarism.
In general they are more inscrutable
in proportion as the demand for scrutiny
is greater and greater. It is at the
highest pitch in the case of a single Magistrate,
especially where he is
appointed to act (a class of cases which
is growing daily more numerous) without
appeal. Next to this case is that of a
Bench of Magistrates sitting in numbers
perhaps not greater than two, in Petty Sessions.
That powers thus exempt from regular judicial control
should be granted in many cases, may be highly
necessary: but the clearer they stand of judicial
controul, the more necessary it seems
to be that they should at least be subjected to
the controul of the public eye.
The case of the newly constituted Police
officers in the Metropolis is a case that
appears to afford a particular demand and at the same
time a particular facility for regular accounts
to be kept of all proceedings without
exception [in Books] digested under
regular heads: and in the plan of Book-keeping
cases of acquittal and discussion
require not less to be included than cases of
conviction or commitment for trial.
Cases criminal and penal that come before Magistrates singly
or otherwise out of Sessions are distinguishable into
two grand divisions: 1. Cases where the authority
of the Magistrate is conclusive, allowing him
to convict or acquitt; and cases where it is only instrumental.
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jeremy bentham |
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