§ 3. Mr. Ronald Bellasked the Attorney-General when the Lord Chancellor's Law Reform Committee is expected to begin consideration of the law of civil liability in respect of highways, particularly in regard to liability for non-feasance.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe Law Reform Committee has not been invited to consider this matter. The question of liability for non-feasance is at present the subject of discussions between my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation and the highway authorities' associations.
§ Mr. BellCan my right hon. and learned Friend offer any hope that, as a result of these conversations, there will be a fairly early amendment of the law? If not, will he ask his noble Friend the Lord Chancellor to submit this matter of non-feasance to the Law Reform Committee, as this is a subject which has, by common consent, been awaiting reform for a very long time?
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe right moment to consider all that is when the Highways Bill, now before Parliament—it is almost entirely a consolidation Measure—has been enacted.