§ MR. RAWLINSON (Cambridge University)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the inquiries promised by him on 29th October last into the question of certain clerks to justices being concerned professionally for members of the public appearing before their bench, have resulted in any, and what, cases of such malpractices being proved to his satisfaction; and, if any such cases have, been proved, what steps he proposes to take in the matter.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) One instance only has been alleged to me of a clerk to justices acting professionally in a case before his bench, and in that case I found on inquiry that the proceedings in question were not before his bench, but in a County Court.