9 JUNE 1894, Page 3

The text of the new resolutions drawn up by the

Judges of the Queen's Bench Division on May .2.141, was published on Saturday last. The most important is that which provides for continuous sittings " throughout the legal year" in London of "at least three Courts of Nisi Prius,"—one for special jury actions, one for common jury actions, and one for cases to be heard without juries, and declares that "all other judicial business shall be considered as secondary to this.' Another resolution states that the Court for Crown Cases Re- served—the Court of Appeal on points of criminal law— shall in future be formed not of all the Judges of the Queen's Bench, but only of the "Lord Chief Justice and four other Judges." A third resolution lays down that there shall hence- forth be a special list for commercial causes, which causes ate to be tried by a special Judge alone, or by jurors summoned from the City. It is difficult not to regret the old Court of Crown Cases Reserved. There was something very imposing as a legal pageant in the sight of fourteen Judges sitting side by side in scarlet and ermine (" like a row of splendid parrots," was the remark of an enthusiastic artist), but the waste of legal energy was too great.