HC Deb 28 April 1819 vol 39 c1481
Mr. Denman

rose, pursuant to notice, to move for leave to bring in a bill for facilitating the dispatch of business in the court of King's-bench. He would shortly state the objects which this bill purported should embrace. The first was to allow one of the judges to sit and hear causes at nisi prius, while the three others were sitting in banco. The second was to empower the judges to pass sentence at the assizes on many of those in which at present the judgment was delivered in term. By this means a great deal of time might be saved. The third was one of small importance: it was to allow the court to sit on the 30th of January. In bringing forward this measure he begged he might not be understood as meaning to cast any reflection upon any of the learned judges now in that court. Nothing could be further from his intention. So far from thinking that they omitted any thing in the discharge of their duty, he thought they already gave too much of their time to the public; and he conceived that, with the regulations which his bill would embrace, it would be better if they did not extend beyond the regular time. He also felt it necessary to say, that the learned judges themselves fully approved of the propriety of the measure.—Leave was given.

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