§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to recent correspondence regarding a notable case in which he has taken part, Whether, as the Law of England now stands, there can be no judicial inquiry into a crime, or alleged crime, short of murder, when no person has been apprehended and accused?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTSir, there is no such provision in the existing law for the purpose suggested by my hon. Friend; but he will find that certain power is taken for that purpose in the 12th section of the proposed Code.