CAPTAIN M `CALMONT (Antrim, E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the attention of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland has been drawn to the numerous instances in which the decisions of Mr. Waters, County Court Judge for the Counties of Waterford, Leitrim, and Cavan, in the exercise of the discretionary jurisdiction entrusted to Chairmen of Quarter Sessions by the Land Act of 1887, have been reversed by Mr. Justice Andrews at the County Cavan Spring Assizes; and, whether he has any power of providing for the consistent administration of justice?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: County Court Judges hold during good behaviour, and the Lord Chancellor has no jurisdiction to interfere with them in the exercise of their judicial discretion. All suitors dissatisfied with the decisions of a County Court Judge in Civil cases can appeal to the Judge of Assize, a right which appears to have been availed of in the instances referred to.