§ MR. FRESHFIELDasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether Her Majesty's Government propose to arrange for the appointment of an additional Vice Chancellor, with adequate staff, to carry on the business which, under existing arrangements, is, or should be, carried on in Chambers?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERThe proposal of the Govern- 1975 ment is not to appoint an "additional Vice Chancellor." The proposal is to appoint an additional Judge of the High Court of Justice. He will, in the first instance, be attached to the Chancery Division of the High Court; but, like all other Judges appointed since the Judicature Act, he may hereafter be removed to another Division, should such a course be expedient. It is not intended, at least at present, that he should have a staff of chief clerks and subordinate clerks, as in the case of the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellors. There is now a very large number of actions before the Chancery Division which are analogous to what were formerly called Common Law actions, which do not involve any amount of Chamber business, and which are the cause of much of the arrear in the Division. The object is to enable arrangements to be made for the decision of these actions.