021 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(021.jpg) Recto 3 The judicial Establishment of New South Wales consists of a Supreme Court which is at once a court of Common Law of Equity and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction - There are three judges and an Attorney and Solicitor General - This error of the three branches necessarily introduces some absurdity and much incongruity- The is also a Commissioner of the Court of Requests, who travels to the remote parts of the Country twice a year and holds his court Monthly in Sydney - The present Commissioner also acts as a barrister, and frequently presents the Anomaly of a judge working against time, adjudicating 2 or 300 cases in one day in order that he may appear in a new character tomorrow - Tis true all the world's a stage and this is not the only farce presented on the boards of New South Wales - In the Court of Requests the effects of cheap law are deplorably visible - One half the cases that are brought there are merely speculative, and consequently require a due modicum of perjury to give them some weight, the result is that in about one third of the cases the two parties themselves who are examined on oath as well as their witnesses swear point blank in the teeth of each other - Our worthy Commissioner has directed several prosecutions for perjury, but these again are to be determined by [aint] of hard searing, and the innocent man is as likely to become the victim as the perjurer - This evil arises chiefly from the observance of the solemnity due to a Court of Justice - professional men by a late act of Council SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665503863/

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