HL Deb 28 July 1876 vol 231 cc1-2
LORD COLERIDGE

said, he wished to make a correction of what he stated upon this subject in last night's debate. He had been represented as saying that the arrears in Banco were 150 cases, whereas, in fact, they were only about 50. He remarked yesterday that at the sittings at Nisi Prius in London and Middlesex, during the legal year which was now drawing to a close, there were standing for trial 670 cases; but he found that the number was nearer 700. He desired to add in reference to the present number of arrears of causes standing for trial being "unprecedented" that he remembered that in the Court in which he now had the honour to preside there were not long ago at the Guildhall sittings alone 348 causes standing for trial. Consequently, it was incorrect to say that the present state of things was unprecedented.