LORD BROUGHAMsaid: My Lords, it has never been my lot to complain of being misreported, nor should I trouble your Lordships on the present occasion were it not for my respect for the learned Judges of the Courts of Law and Equity, to whom some mis-statements as to the views expressed by me here on Friday might be supposed to be derogatory. It has been said that I stated it as a fit and proper course that all the judgments of the Courts of Law and Equity should be revised periodically at the end of the year by Parliament, and that the erroneous judgments should be set aside. I never said any such thing, nor anything like it. I was complaining of the little attention which had been paid to an Address to the Crown, carried in the other House by a right hon. and learned Friend of mine (Mr. Napier), for the establishment of a Department of Justice, and to which an answer had been returned by the Crown to the effect that it should be taken into immediate considera- 874 tion. I said that I hoped the time had come when effect would be given to that Address by the establishment of a Department of Justice, and I added that that Department would have many most important functions, but that it would not—it could not—have the function of revising any decision, however erroneous, of the Courts, since they could only be altered by the Judges themselves, by the appellate jurisdiction, or by an Act of Parliament.