§ MR. HARMOOD-BANNER (Liverpool Everton)To ask Mr. Attorney-General whether his attention has been called to the delay in obtaining a hearing of causes before the Court of Appeal, and to the fact that certain causes have been down now more than two years for hearing without any immediate probability of coming on; and whether any remedy for this delay has been considered and if it is proposed either to form an extra Court or appoint further Judges to obviate the difficulty.
§ (Answered by Sir Lawson Walton.) The delay has no doubt been considerable; but many of the cases which have stood over have been postponed at the request of the parties or for special reasons. An additional Court has been and will be organised, when practicable, to deal with arrears. No further remedy is possible without further legislation, in reference to which no decision has yet been arrived at.