The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-03 00:00:00

CONCENTRATION OP THE SUPERIOR COURTS
AND OPPIONS OP I4W.

Tire February number of the Lain Marline and
Late Review has the following announcement
"We believe that es an early day sdue the 110111411•5011.
mewl at the session the Attorney-Geueral will move for the
is of a bill as bills for the ameestredioa of the
7 41ear 4911 gt• of law and equity and their offices as the
• between (ray-street end the Strand, which wee re.
eoravameded some years ago by • royal commission.
This will be tin fourth parliamentary attempt lo re-
medy what is allowed on all heads to be • micas
evil. It is admitted by the practitioners elm condatt
balms in all the courts that their diapersion is the
pall& source of delay and expense, sod that the ooncentree
lies of the courts and aloes be • astral situation, Ii Ewe
sue Temple sad Uees. inn, et:tie=
(metes of badmen, and thus
sieseyomonasay, and despatch is the administration of the
law. The suitor would be spared much of the 111100,111206
mil arm of the cost to which he is now subject ; the
practitioner would be saved • waste of time, streogth,
and energy ; jayvees, witnesses, and others, whose at-
tendance cannot be dispensed with, and who form in the
no inconsiderable portion of the public, would
blignittired of inconveniences of which they now most
redeemably complain. The °Wales that have hitherto
stood in the way of effecting thin great public besiege
seem to have been chaffy two ; the financial quotas which
moot arise in mooting say extensive improvement, more
especially when brick and mortar become elements in
the calculdtioo ; and still more the strange apathy which
the public, and oonsequently their represeetallves in
parlissiest, have shows an the eabjeet. We are glad
to believe that both then diffieulties are about to dis-
appear, sod that Sir Hamden Palmer will soon address
• house willing to listen to • practicable peheme for the
erection of • palace of justice worthy of English law.
The meal of the Social Same Association ham
lately bated • statement, which seems to be authori-
tative, of the necessity at snob a measure, and
of the provisions embodied io the government bill;
and as they are adoptiug means for exciting the attention
at public bodies of various kinds throughout England, we
may WINNOW petitions to parliament and representations
to iononmble members may mew* a fair bearing foe the
question. It appears that • scheme hes been devised which
may remove the financial objections dated on former ems.
acme, sad which, without bardming the public purse,
will impose on the 'niter • tax so light se to
be scarcely appreciable. Of the 1,500,0201. required
for the purchase of the site and the oonerruntien
at the required 1,000,0001. is to be fur
-
Walled by the fund accumulated in the hands of the Court
of
Chancery from the icterest paid on the sums lodged with
that court ; in other words, the fend B, as designated by
the Royal Commission, and of which it was truly remarked
by the Lord Chancellor that It should be called DO man's
fund,' s belonging of right to no one, and therefore amble
of appropriation by the state for an object of public utility.
A aim of 200,0001. is to be paid by the as the esti-
mated mine of the sites which the government will acquire
by the demolition or abandooment of the existing marts and
o[gos ; which cites can of worse be utilised for the notion
in the way either of aloe soommodation or of strait
arnareant. The remainder of the total required for the
meedeary outlay I. to be supplied in the first isotopes from
the consolidated fund, abject to reps t with mou-
nts interest out of the produce of a fees to be levied
for that purpose on all actions in the Courts of Common
Law, and on wills in the Court of Probate. In each owe
the tat will been small (we bear of • gum of la ed. en en
action, that no grievance will be felt by the suitor, wits
iadoed would receive much more than his quid pro quo for
• far heavier burden in the facilities that will be afforded
and the trouble and other hardship that will be removed
by go practical an amendment in the sdasinistratio• of the
law. We really trust that the authors of the statement to
which we have alluded are mistaken in their immolate
that the Society of Lincoln's Inn Mamie to resew its eppo-
shim to the bill. Such a proceediag, avowedly bead a it
mast be on selfish grounds, and those too of • flimsy eta.
ranter, would be utterly unworthy of • body representing
the largest section of the Bar, and numberiog smog its
Bench some of our most distinguished names. Surely it le
time that mob • measure as this should be dialogued on
',atom."

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