§ 34. Mr. MACQUISTENasked 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. MACQUISTENIs 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-GENERALNo, Sir.
§ Mr. MACQUISTENIs 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?