MR. BRYNMOR JONES (Swansea District)To ask Mr. Attorney-General whether, seeing that when a Judge of County Courts in England and Wales is unable, owing to illness or domestic affliction, to hold his Courts in person on the appointed days the expense of obtaining a deputy Judge under The County Courts Act, 1888, falls upon him, he will say whether a like obligation is imposed on other judicial officers of the Crown; and whether he can see his way to recommend that steps be taken to give relief to Judges of County Courts from this obligation.
(Answered by Sir Robert Finlay.) I think my hon. and learned friend will find that in those cases in the judical service where a person may act by deputy he has to provide for the deputy himself. The matter will be brought under the consideration of the Lord Chancellor and the Treasury, but I cannot say that any change will be made in the direction indicated in the Question.