HC Deb 07 April 1971 vol 815 cc553-4
The Attorney-General

I beg to move Amendment No. 20, in page 19, line 4 after 'of', insert: 'continuing to deal with'. It may be convenient to discuss with it Amendment No. 21. These are drafting Amendments. The effect of Amendment No. 20 is to enable a circuit judge or recorder who is requested to sit as an additional judge of the High Court to attend at the High Court to complete a part-heard case. It was not entirely clear that subsection (4) enabled a circuit judge or recorder to return to deal with a case which had been adjourned part-heard. The Amendment puts the matter beyond doubt. Amendment No. 21 completes the power of a circuit judge or recorder sitting in relief on the High Court bench to dispose of a part-heard case.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: No. 2l, in page 19, line 5 leave out 'he may have heard' and insert: 'may have been begun before him'.—[The Attorney-General.]

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