Royal Commission Criminal Law, Jersey (1847)

Author(s): The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the criminal law in the Channel Islands

Title: First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the criminal law in the Channel Islands; Jersey;

Remarks:

Following agitation in Jersey, the barristers Thomas Flower Ellis and Thomas Bros were appointed by Royal Commission of 16 May 1846 to investigate, in all the Channel Islands, the subject of the titles of their reports, appearing for Jersey in 1847 and Guernsey the following year. Reactions to the Jersey report are set out by Le Quesne and Kelleher (see below). The former (p. 20) thought the Commissioners "admirably chosen", although Stéphanie Nicolle, not unreasonably, identified in them "... an inability to adjust to the fact that they were in a different jurisdiction than their own" (p. 92). with minutes of evidence, and index. Edition(s) (this copy in bold): 1847 (this copy forms part of the first of the nineteen volumes of Reports from Commissioners 1847 and as such is bound with the more general Third Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for revising and consolidating the Criminal Law and two reports of the Inspectors of Factories). Provenance of this copy: St John Robilliard Collection

Further reading:

J. Kelleher, The Triumph of the Country: the rural community in 19^th-century Jersey (2^nd edn, Jersey, 2017), pp. 325-332. G. Le Quesne, Jersey and Whitehall in the mid-nineteenth century (3^rd Joan Stevens Memorial Lecture, Jersey, 1992). S. Nicolle, The Origin and Development of Jersey Law: an outline guide (fifth edn, Jersey, 2009). G. Dawes, "Introduction" to G. Dawes (ed.), G. Terrien, Commentaires du Droict Civil (Guernsey, 2010), p.49.