Palmerston's second government was notable for its active and productive legislative work, which was able to absolved it of any charge of useless indolence, despite Palmerston and his cabinet not introducing far reaching innovative reform. The parliamentary budgets introduced by Gladstone were enough to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ministry and the annual Queen's Speeches at the end of each parliamentary session, showed promising modest reforms by both houses of parliament that were exceptionally useful such as prisons bills, partnership liability bills, crime chargeability bills and so on. His Lord Chancellor Lord Westbury, proved to be one of the "greatest of the modern reform Lord Chancellors" with rigorous attempts at reform the legal system, despite falling short on his ambitions with his plans for land transfers and title registration not being fully realised.
Palmerston's second government was notable for its active and productive legislative work, which was able to absolved it of any charge of useless indolence, despite Palmerston and his cabinet not introducing far reaching innovative reform The parliamentary budgets introduced by Gladstone were enough to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ministry and the annual Queen's Speeches at the end of each parliamentary session, showed promising modest reforms by both houses of parliament that were exceptionally useful such as prisons bills, partnership liability bills, crime chargeability bills and so on. His Lord Chancellor Lord Westbury, proved to be one of the "greatest of the modern reform Lord Chancellors" with rigorous attempts at reform the legal system, despite falling short on his ambitions with his plans for land transfers and title registration not being fully realised.