[094-283v]

25 Dec r 1806

Scotch Reform

To L d Grenville

Revelation the 60 th. That when any judgment shall have been pronounced in any Chamber of the Court of Session, it shall be subject to review in a Chamber of Review, in which none of the Judges shall sit who belonged to that Chamber whose judgment is to be reviewed; and that the cause shall, in that stage, be conducted by printed cases, and hearing of Counsel, in the manner and form observed in Appeal to the House of Lords; such Chamber of Review to constituted in such manner hereafter be appointed by act of Parliament.

Here is delay, vexation, expence, with no proportion of professional profit, organized /manufactured/ without disguise. If the interests of the /people[?] in quality[?] of //the character/ suitors, if the interests of question[?] are to derive any benefit from it, I should be glad to know in what shape.

Permitt me on this occasion once more, my Lord, to beg Your Lordship's attention to a distinction /division of causes/ which though not to be found in the Law Books, is not the less /but the more //has not the less claim/ avertions of the attention of a /the/ legislator - the distinction between bonâ fide and malâ fide causes. To the latter class belongs every cause in which either party is in malâ fide /that commonness of wrong exists on either side malâ fides/, and for obvious reasons, the party by [...?] the most apt to be in that case in the Defendant.