§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ 3.5 p.m.
§ LORD WRIGHTMy Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be read a second time. It is a very short and simple measure. It involves one alteration of the Solicitors Act of 1932. The point of the Bill is to increase the number of members of the Disciplinary Committee from seven to nine and to enable the Committee to sit in more divisions than one, so long as there are not less than three members at the sitting of any division. It is not, of course, an emergency or a war measure, but the Committee are very anxious to have this change, as a good deal of delay has been experienced under the present system. The Bill has come to this House from another place, where it has passed through all its stages, and I apprehend that there should be no objection whatever to this very useful measure.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a.—(Lord Wright.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.