§ Mr. Cassellsasked the Home Secretary whether having regard to the findings of the Stewart Committee, 1935, quoad medical referees, he is prepared to recommend steps being immediately taken to permit of appeals from the findings of medical referees by either party to the medical referee?
§ Sir J. AndersonThe recommendations of this Committee as to the setting up of medical appeal tribunals are part of a scheme under which all medical issues under the Workmen's Compensation Act would as a general rule be decided by the medical referee and not by the courts. They would involve substantial changes in the machinery of the Act, and I do not think it would be right, even if it were practicable, to introduce such changes at 1545W the present juncture, more especially as the Royal Commission will be reviewing the whole matter.