§ MR. JOHN REDMONDI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he is aware that, so far back as 24th October. 1882, the late Mr. Gladstone, then Prime Minister, declared that the Government had it in contemplation to submit al a very early period a measure dealing with the alteration of the present law of contempt of court; and whether, as no such measure has since that date been introduced, His Majesty s Government "will now propose legislation on the subject.
MK A J BALFOURSome method of dealing with contempt of court is necessary but I do not know that any satisfactory change in the present law has been suggested. The hon. and learned Gentleman must have made some mistake at to the date of Mr. Gladstone s statement, as I cannot trace the reference.
§ MR. JOHN REDMONDI will send the reference to the right hon. Gentleman.*
*See The Parliamentary Debates [Third Series], Vol. cclxxiv., page 36.