§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to remarks made by Sir Thomas Snagge at the Kettering county court during the present week, when His Honour, in dealing with 118 judgment summonses, characterised the same as a 709 monstrous system of our law, and said that the Treasury were running county courts like a shop, so that the more customers that went to the shop the more fees went to the Treasury, and that the work was repulsive and oppressing to county court judges; and whether the Government contemplate introducing any remedial legislation in the matter?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI have seen a newspaper report of the remarks attributed to Judge Snagge. I cannot gather from them in what respect an alteration in existing county court procedure is suggested. Any representations addressed to the Lord Chancellor by a county court judge as to inequalities or hardships under the existing procedure in county courts would, of course, receive most careful consideration.