§ 47. Mr. AMMONasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will issue a statement showing in which of the British dependencies the native inhabitants are prohibited, and in which they are free, to employ counsel to defend them when being tried on a capital charge?
Mr. J. H. THOMASThe only courts in the colonies, protectorates, or mandated territories in which the right to employ counsel is refused to persons on a capital charge are those in Somaliland and certain native courts in the Protectorate of Nigeria.