§ Sir CROYDON MARKSasked the Attorney-General whether he can state the number of appeals that have been brought from the decisions of the Comptroller-General of Patents to the Law Officer of the Crown during the present year; and what is the actual condition of the list in relation to these appeals?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Rufus Isaacs)The suggestion that there are heavy arrears in the list of appeals to be disposed of by the Law officers is without foundation. On 31st July last, when the last Law Term came to an end, every appeal entered and ready for hearing by the Law officers had been heard and disposed of. Only seven cases remain undisposed of in the list of appeals, and each of these cases is undisposed of, not because the Law officer concerned is not willing and ready to hear it, but because of adjournment at the request, or for the convenience of, parties concerned.