§ Mr. Clinton Davisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will specify the magistrates' courts in England in which the clerks refuse to take contemporaneous notes of summary trials; and what direction he has issued in this connection.
§ Mr. CarlisleThere is no law or direction requiring courts to take such notes.
§ Mr. Clinton Davisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to require a 130W contemporaneous note of proceedings tried summarily in magistrates' courts to be kept by the clerk of the court.
§ Mr. CarlisleThis is one of the recommendations made in the Law Society's memorandum on appeals from the criminal jurisdiction of magistrates' courts, which my right hon. Friend is studying.