§ MR. COBBI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will ascertain from the Lord Chancellor if he is aware that dissatisfaction and regret exists among the members of the legal profession and the public as to the manner in which one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench Division is able to 1702 perform his duties, and that attention is being called to this subject in the legal newspapers; and whether any change is contemplated at an early date in the constitution of the Bench in that Division?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (MR. W. H. SMITH, Strand, Westminster)The Lord Chancellor thinks that it would be going altogether beyond any province assigned to him by law if he were to assume such a disciplinary attitude towards Her Majesty's Judges as appears to be suggested by the hon. Member's question. If there is any matter of fact within his jurisdiction in relation to the Supreme Court as to which the hon. Member desires information, the Lord Chancellor would be very happy to give it; but in this case the question states neither any fact nor any person in relation to whom such information is desired.
§ MR. COBBAm I to understand that the Lord Chancellor states that he is not aware that any dissatisfaction or regret exists amongst the members of the legal profession on the subject named in the question?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHI think I am justified in saying that the Lord Chancellor has had no communication of the kind made to him.