§ Sir JOHN JARDINEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in order to make the administration of the law of murder more certain and efficient, he would consider favourably, with a view to legislative action, the judicial experience of all British India, sanctioned by successive statutes in the past half century, under which in capital cases the convicting judge and the court of appeal may pass sentence of confinement for life where circumstances pointed to such exercise of judicial discretion, the tribunal thus performing a function reserved in the United Kingdom to the Royal prerogative?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe Secretary of State sees no prospect of introducing legislation on this subject.