HC Deb 25 June 1907 vol 176 c1148
MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the result of communications which have passed between the Lord Chancellor and local justices who have adjudicated in agrarian cases outside the petty sessions districts to which they are attached.

MR. CHERRY

The Lord Chancellor informs me that he has been in communication with six magistrates who had acted at petty sessions outside their proper districts. Three of them have undertaken in writing not to do so again; one has ceased to be a magistrate owing to the expiration of his term of office; another has not yet complied; and the case of the sixth is under consideration. Pending the determination of the last-named case, the magistrate has been required to abstain from sitting on the Bench.

MR. MOORE

Will the right hon. Gentleman give the names of the three who have given the undertaking?

Mr. CHERRY

That is a matter for the Lord Chancellor. In the information given me I have no mention of the names.