§ Mr. Christopher Price (Lewisham, West)I beg to present a petition from Dennis Richard Muirhead, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature. As I propose to move a motion in respect of the petition, I ask for it to be read.
§ The Clerk of the House read the petition, which was as follows:
§ To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled.
§ The Humble Petition of Dennis Richard Muirhead, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of 40 Bedford Street London W.C.2 on behalf of Mark Jeffrey Hosenball who is the Applicant in an application to be made to the Divisional Court of the Queens Bench Division for an order of certiorari to be heard in London shortly
§ Sheweth,
§ That the Applicant seeks determination of legal issues affecting the validity of an order of deportation made against him by the Secretary of State for Home Affairs pursuant to his powers under the Immigration Act 1971.
§ And that reference is desired to be made at the said application to the Official Report 1185 of the House for the 15th day of June 1971 (H.C. Deb. 819; Cols. 375–377). Wherefore your Petitioner prays that your Honourable House will be graciously pleased to give leave to the proper officer of the House to attend the hearing of the said application and to produce the said Reports and formally to prove the same before the Court according to his competence; and that leave be given for reference to be made to the said Report of Debates
§ And your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray etc.
§ Dennis Richard Muirhead
§ 40 Bedford Street
§ London
§ W.C.2.
§ 21st February 1977.
§ Ordered,
§ That leave be given to the proper Officer of this House to attend the trial of the said action and to produce the said Report of Debates; and that leave be given for reference to be made to the said Report.—[Mr. Christopher Price.]