HC Deb 13 February 1894 vol 21 cc386-7
MR. FENWICK (Northumberland, Wansbeck)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the case of "Metcalf v Holden Brothers, "which was decided in the Clitheroe County Court on the 2nd of December last: whether such decision is in accordance with the provisions of "The Employer's and Workmen's Act, 1875," Clause 11, Section 3; and whether he is aware that an application for permission to appeal against the said verdict was refused?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH, Fife, E.)

My attention has been called to this case by the question of my hon. Friend, and I have made such inquiry as I could do at, short notice. A somewhat intricate point of law was involved, on which I myself should have thought that the case of "Warburton v. Heyworth," decided in 1880 by the Court of Appeal, pointed to a different decision from that given by the learned Judge. But I must point out to my hon. Friend that I have no jurisdiction to review or question the Judgments of County Court Judges in any case. I understand that leave to appeal was refused.