§ 36. Mr. Iremongerasked the Attorney-General if he will refer to the Director of Public Prosecutions the prima facie evidence of conspiracy on the part of the London County Council valuation officers in 1962 as set out obiter by two Lords Justices in the judgment in the Court of Appeal in the case of Young versus Greater London Council.
§ The Attorney-GeneralI have studied the judgments to which the hon. Member refers and I find nothing in them to suggest that the members of the court were of the opinion that the case disclosed 29 evidence of the commission of a criminal offence.
§ Mr. IremongerMay I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman two little "quickies"? First, is he aware that there are now 20 names appended to the Motion on the Order Paper demanding an inquiry into this scandal? Secondly, is he aware that, when the appellant brought the appeal, the valuation officers approached him with an offer of £20,000 to drop it?
§ The Attorney-GeneralWhat I do know is that there was no mention of the valuation officers in the judgment of the Court of Appeal, there was nothing to justify the allegation of conspiracy, and that the argument that the Traffic Advisory Committee's decision was not bona fide was abandoned.