§ MR. DARLINGI beg to ask the Attorney General whether he is aware that costs under- the scale in force in the Chancery Division are higher than those allowed in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, and that a Committee of Masters and others was appointed to consider how to bring the two scales of costs into accord; whether that Committee has made any Report; and when it last sat?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir R. WEBSTER, Isle of Wight)The scale of costs is, I am informed, the same both in the Chancery and Common Law Divisions, but I am not sure that the application of the rules is exactly the same in both Divisions. A Departmental Committee did investigate the subject in 1889, and reported in July of that year; but it would not, in my opinion, be for the public interests that I should make any further statement as to the Report of that Committee. It has not sat since. If my hon. and learned Friend will communicate with me, I may be in a position to give him further information upon the question.