§ COLONEL ALEXANDERasked the Lord Advocate, Whether, with a view 1485 to place all Her Majesty's subjects upon a footing of equality in cases where their lives and liberties are concerned, he will, during the present Session, move for leave to introduce a Bill constituting a Court of Criminal Appeal for Scotland?
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR)Sir, I do not propose, during the present Session, to move for leave to introduce a Bill constituting a Court of Criminal Appeal for Scotland. There is every reason to believe that the time of the Grand Committee on Law and Legal Procedure will be fully occupied during the present Session with the Bill now before it. The question whether a Criminal Appeal Bill for Scotland should be introduced during the next Session of Parliament will be carefully considered.
§ COLONEL ALEXANDERI beg to give Notice, in consequence of the reply of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, that, on the consideration of the English Criminal Appeal Bill, as amended, I shall move that the Bill be re-committed, and that it be an Instruction to the Committee to extend its provisions to Scotland.