Report on the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales

"Report on the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales" is the second report by English judge and royal commissioner John Thomas Bigge on the situation in the colonies. His inquiry started as several wealthy landowners, mainly John Macarthur, complained about the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie. The latter was famous for his policies of remediating ex-convicts back into society, creating a lack of a cheap and free workforce for the landowners. In this report, Bigge focused upon a defamation action launched by Samuel Marsden to argue against the appointment of emancipated convicts to positions of magistrates and jurors. Bigge thought these policies promoting emancipists by Macquarie were «inexpedient and dangerous.»