§ Captain WARINGasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that the judges selected to try election petitions sit in those cases both as judge and jury, and that there is no appeal, he will consider the advisability of introducing legislation to ensure that no judge shall be selected to try an election petition whose decisions in the previous year have been reversed by the Court of Appeal two out of three times or oftener?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI do not think this is a practical suggestion.
§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYWould the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of removing election petitions entirely from the purview of the judges of the High Court, and make the tribunal Mr. Speaker, assisted by the Law Officers of the Crown as legal assessors?