HC Deb 03 May 1923 vol 163 c1595
40. Mr. MARDY JONES

asked the Home Secretary whether he will grant a judicial inquiry into the apparently conflicting functions of coroners and magistrates with reference to the preliminary investigation into cases of homicide and into the necessity for such a change in the administration of the law as will protect accused persons who are acquitted by the magistrates from having to await trial at the assizes on a coroner's warrant?

Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON

The questions involved will be considered before any general Amendment of the law as to coroner's inquests is proposed.

Mr. JONES

Will the hon. Gentleman also answer Question 97, as it is correlated to this question?

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