§ 40. Mr. MARDY JONESasked 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-LAMPSONThe questions involved will be considered before any general Amendment of the law as to coroner's inquests is proposed.