§ 45. Mr. Pollockasked the Solicitor-General for Scotland when he intends next to meet the Lord Justice General.
§ The Solicitor-General for ScotlandI have no immediate plans to meet this, Lord Justice General, but my noble and learned Friend the Lord Advocate has meetings with him from time to time.
§ Mr. PollockWhen my hon. and learned Friend next meets the Lord Justice General, will he take the opportunity to discuss a recent television debate on the provisions of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill before an apparently implacably hostile audience? Does he agree that that was a gross abuse of the BBC's impartiality under its charter?
§ The Solicitor-General for ScotlandI think that it is fortunate for justice that the i3BC does not select juries, because I should have thought that it would have to be an extremely packed jury which, on the case presented, could find twice in an hour in favour of someone such as the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar).
§ Mr. DewarDoes the Solicitor-General for Scotland accept that the jury referred to was made up of 15 final-year law students from Glasgow university, who were picked at random—at random from among those in that year—and that many of them were members of the Conservative club at the university?
§ The Solicitor-General for ScotlandThe House will be extremely grateful that lawyers practise the law and that the people decide whether they have made their point.