HC Deb 20 November 1882 vol 274 cc1715-6
MR. BIGGAR

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Is it a fact that Mr. Martin, of Hamilton, county Donegal, and Sessional Crown Prosecutor for that county, is also law agent for several landowners in the county; and, whether he appears to represent the Crown in the Arrears Court?

MR. TREVELYAN

In addition to being Sessional Crown Solicitor for the County Donegal, Mr. Martin is a solicitor in private practice, and may as such have acted as law agent for landowners in the county. With respect to the Arrears Court, Mr. Martin was instructed in the same way as the Sessional Crown Solicitors in the other counties to appear for the Treasury in such cases as were considered necessary.

MR. BIGGAR

asked whether Sessional Prosecutors were also frequently solicitors for landowners in the district?

MR. TREVELYAN

To say I do not know that they are would be no answer. The hon. Member must give me Notice of his Question.