 Macquarie recommended that the plan be adopted and suggested to the English authorities that Bent should be made the first judge of any such court created.Bent was passed over for the position, and instead it was offered to his brother Jeffrey Bent.The establishment of this latter court, the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature (commonly referred to as the Supreme Court) lessened the workload of Bent as the Court of Civil Jurisdiction over which he presided was abolished as a result of the establishment of that Supreme Court.