§ COLONEL SIR H. VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Attorney General if there is any age at which recorders, county court judges, and stipendiary magistrates are required to retire; if it is usual for one individual to hold the positions of county court judge and recorder in the same district; if there is any rule, written or unwritten, concerning the practice of a lawyer's son before a father sitting as county court judge or recorder; and if there is any power of revising a criminal sentence if the public sense feels that it has erred on the side of excessive leniency?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir R. E. WEBSTER,) Isle of WightAs far as I know, there is no age fixed for the compulsory retirement of recorders, county court judges, or stipendiary magistrates. There is no uniform practice, but of late years it has not been usual for the same person to hold the office of county court judge and recorder in the same district. There is no written rule applicable to the question of a son practising before his father, but the Bar has always set itself steadily against such practice, and discouraged it in every possible way. The answer to the last paragraph is in the negative.