§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the fact that at the recent Assizes at Chelmsford and Worcester respectively, judges have in two cases publicly expressed disapproval of the verdicts of juries on prisoners tried before them, he will use his influence with the Government to induce them to take steps to establish a Court of Criminal Appeal; and whether he will cause inquiry to be made into the cases of these prisoners by way of review of the convictions.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolThe cases referred to are being enquired into, but I do not think that what has occurred in them is at all decisive on the difficult question as to the desirability of establishing a Court of Criminal Appeal.