§ MR. O'SULLIVANasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, If it is true that Mr. Clifford Lloyd, Resident Magistrate, Kilmallock, has persons arrested and brought before him (almost daily, without summons or warrant) at his private residence and at the Police Barracks, both at Kilmallock and Kilfinane, where he hears complaints by the police brought against such persons, and inflicts fines and imprisonment in private, without holding a legally constituted court; and, whether the charges in many of those cases were not for hooting or groaning at himself; and, if so, under what statute is a magistrate empowered to deal with such cases other than in an ordinary petty sessions, and without giving the parties accused full time to prepare for their defence?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW), in reply, said, he had communicated with Mr. Clifford Lloyd in reference to this Question, and had received a Report in which that gentleman stated that he could not understand to what proceedings the question referred, as he had caused no person to be brought before him without summons or warrant, and had not performed any act except what he was authorized to do by statute. Mr. Lloyd stated that there was no real foundation for the hon. Gentleman's statement; and he thought, therefore, that the hon. Member must have been wrongly informed.
§ MR. O'SULLIVANThere is no mistake whatever. Mr. Lloyd lives opposite to my own residence, and I have seen men taken into his house and coming out after conviction.