§ CAPTAIN CLIVE (Herefordshire, Ross)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether his attention has been called to the fact that two Judges of the High 1090 Court of Justice are not provided with Courts, Mr. Justice Grantham sitting in the Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn, and Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady in some room under the Bar Library; and whether, under these circumstances, it is proposed to provide additional Courts.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir ROBERT FINLAY, Inverness Burghs)It is a fact that there is not sufficient accommodation in the Royal Courts of Justice for the Judges of the High Court from the present time until the end of the sittings. The Lord Chief Justice has had to apply to the Benchers for the use of the Old Hall at Lincoln's Inn for Mr. Justice Grantham, and Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady is sitting in a room wholly unfitted for the purposes of a Court. In the event, as is possible, of one of the three Judges now on circuit returning to town before the 16th, there will be absolutely no Court in which he can be accommodated. This inconvenience is certain to occur under present arrangements from time to time during other periods of the legal year. Four or five more Courts will be required for the accommodation of the Judges unless the existing arrangement of circuits can be entirely remodelled, so as to ensure greater uniformity in the number of judges in town, which in my opinion is very desirable.
§ SIR ROBERT FINLAYTwo remedies are possible, One is an addition to the Law Courts, and the other is a re-arrangement of the circuits. I, personally should prefer the second.