HC Deb 09 February 1943 vol 386 cc1194-5W
Dr. Morgan

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that on 30th October last, in a magistrate's court in Trinidad, the assistant law officer of the Colony, as prosecutor for the Crown, in pressing for immediate trial of persons arrested the previous night, tried to bully the defending counsel; whether the defendants had been informed on arrest of the charge against them, or the date on which it was committed; whether Colonial law officers will be instructed of the undesirability of such conduct; and whether it is his intention to institute inquiries?

Colonel Stanley

If the hon. Member will furnish me with particulars, I will certainly ask the Governor of Trinidad for a report. Meanwhile I must not be taken as in any way accepting the allegations contained in the Question.