Supreme Appellate Jurisdiction

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Excerpt from Supreme Appellate Jurisdiction: A Speech Delivered by the Right Hon. Lord O'hagan, In the House of Lords, On the 11th of June, 1874But, my Lords, the question does not regard you only. The loss or gain is not merely personal to you. You hold a trust for the good of the realm, which has come down to you, as a great inheritance, through many generations of wise and famous men. If you can no longer fulfil its obligations with advantage to the administration of justice, you ought, at once, to abandon it, but its voluntary abandonment should, at least, be justified by plain and coercive reasons.I confess, with my noble and learned friend, the Lord Justice Clerk, that I scarcely expected to see this controversy effectively renewed. But it has had a vigorous revival. Public opinion has largely declared itself, in various districts of the Empire, for the maintenance of your ancient juris diction. The discussion is raised again, in new circumstances and under new conditions, by a member of your Lordships' House, who pos sesses the highest personal and hereditary claims to your most respectful consideration, and I have felt bound to give the matter again my best attention, and to reach, upon its merits, the soundest conclusion I can form.I have said so much, perhaps unnecessarily, as my noble and learned friend on the Woolsack seemed to think, when I last addressed your Lordships on this topic, that there was something in the nature of a personal estoppel against my argument, because, having been Lord Chancellor of Ireland under the late Government, I had given, as he said, the weight of my authority to the opposite view.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.