In 1825 he exposed the delay and expense involved in the existing bankruptcy procedure in "Inquiries respecting the Courts of Commissioners of Bankrupts and Lord Chancellor's Court", London. In 1826 he edited "The Evidence in Bankruptcy before the Chancery Commission, with the Report", London; and in 1826–7 published two "Letters on the Report of the Chancery Commissioners to the Right Honourable Robert Peel", London. He also published in 1827 "Observations upon the Act for Consolidating the Bankrupt Laws", London; "Reform", London (a tract mainly relating to bankruptcy); and with Francis Gregg "A Digest of the Bankrupt Laws as altered by the New Statutes", London, 2 vols. "Letters on the Bankrupt Laws to Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Esq." (Sugden was later Lord St. Leonards), followed in 1829; and in 1831 "The New Bankrupt Court Act, arranged with a copious Index and Observations upon the Erroneous Principle on which it is Founded", London, 1831.