HC Deb 13 June 1934 vol 290 c1690
34. Mr. MACQUISTEN

asked the Attorney-General whether his attention has been called to a book entitled "Holy Deadlock" wherein His Majesty's judges and courts, and the legal code which they administer in matrimonial causes, are held up to public ridicule and contempt; and whether it is proposed to take any action in the matter?

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)

The book in question is a work of fiction, and is not such as to require any action on my part.

Mr. MACQUISTEN

Is not the state of affairs disclosed in that book pretty much what is happening in the courts just now? Is not that notorious?

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL

No, Sir.

Mr. MACQUISTEN

Is it not the case that our matrimonial code is based on a pre-Reformation standard of a celibate clergy? Why do the English not have the Scottish matrimonial law, which is much more sensible?