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Constitution of court and rights of parties to counsel, &c.
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12. Every such complaint and information shall be heard, tried, determined, and adjudged by one or two or more justice or justices of the peace, as shall be directed by the Act of Parliament upon which such complaint or information shall be framed, or such other Act or Acts of Parliament as there may be in that behalf; [1
and if there be no such direction in any such Act of Parliament, then such complaint or information may be heard, tried, determined, and adjudged by any one justice of the peace for the county, riding, division, liberty, city, borough, or place where the matter of such information shall have arisen;] and the room or place in which such justice or justices shall sit to hear and try any such complaint or information shall be deemed an open and public court, to which the public generally may have access, so far as the same can conveniently contain them; and the party against whom such complaint is made or information laid shall be admitted to make his full answer and defence thereto, and to have the witnesses examined and cross-examined by counsel or attorney on his behalf; and every complainant or informant in any such case shall be at liberty to conduct such complaint or information respectively and to have the witnesses examined and cross-examined by counsel or attorney on his behalf.
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