HC Deb 05 June 1871 vol 206 cc1533-4
MR. DENMAN

asked Mr. Attorney General, Whether Her Majesty's Government will cause Copies of any Communications from the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity received by the Lord Chancellor or the Law Officers during the present Session, and relating to the Government Law Reform Bills, to be laid upon the Table of the House, before the principle of those Bills is discussed?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

said, in reply, that letters had been received by the Lord Chancellor from Judges of the Superior Law and Equity Courts during the present Session with reference to the Government Law Reform Bills, but they could not be published without the consent of the writers. He would ascertain whether there was any objection to the publication of these letters. As to the bringing in of the Government Law Reform Bills, that would in some measure depend on the state of the Business of the House.