CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10] — Page 389

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in advising His Excellency, under these circumstances, not to have recourse to any remedy but one: the reform, as I think it is, I mean a reform of the Bench. Of what use will it be to summon legislation to his aid, - for, as to the law, that is powerless! — when after all it will be to these same justices that His Excellency must resort to carry into effect the results of the legislation? that, hereafter, I do not deny. And with a good Bench of justices, legislation will be highly desirable still to cure the vices of the Ordinance 10 of 1844, and restore unimpaired the title of the Crown to the nod of the writ of Certiorari so much obstructed and thwarted by that ill-formed and ill-considered Ordinance. But to attempt any reform at present in that direction - before the law has been vindicated against the systematic mal-administration of it in the hands of its Ministers, is to build with...

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in advising His Excellency, under these circumstances, not to have recourse to any remedy but one: the reform, as I think it is, I mean a reform of the Bench. Of what use will it be to summon legislation to his aid, - for, as to the law, that is powerless! — when after all it will be to these same justices that His Excellency must resort to carry into effect the results of the legislation? that, hereafter, I do not deny. And with a good Bench of justices, legislation will be highly desirable still to cure the vices of the Ordinance 10 of 1844, and restore unimpaired the title of the Crown to the nod of the writ of Certiorari so much obstructed and thwarted by that ill-formed and ill-considered Ordinance. But to attempt any reform at present in that direction - before the law has been vindicated against the systematic mal-administration of it in the hands of its Ministers, is to build with...Page 387
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