HC Deb 21 May 1912 vol 38 cc1894-5W
Mr. MARTIN

asked the Attorney-General what judges in the King's Bench Division have sat on Saturdays in London, and on what Saturdays since the Prime Minister promised last Session that such a course would be taken?

Sir RUFUS ISAACS

The subjoined table shows the number of Saturday sittings in London of the judges in the King's Bench Division from Michaelmas, 1910, to Hilary, 1912. The Lord Chief Justice and other judges who sit in the Court of Criminal Appeal do not sit on Saturdays but are engaged in the work of the Court. The judges taking the commercial list and the judges presiding in the Railway Commission do not sit on Saturdays but devote extra time to the work during the week. In further answer I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by me to his question on the 22nd of April last.

Summary of Saturday Sittings of Judges in the King's Bench Division from Michaelmas, 1910, to Hilary, 1912:—

Saturdays out of Fifty-Seven Saturdays.
Lord Chief Justice 2
Grantham, Justice 8
Lawrance, Justice 10
Ridley, Justice 15
Darling, Justice 29
Channell, Justice 20
Phillimore, Justice 44
Bucknill, Justice 26
Bray, Justice 12
A. T. Lawrence, Justice 7
Pickford, Justice 16
Lord Coleridge, Justice 16
Hamilton, Justice 10
Scrutton, Justice 8
Bankes, Justice 17
Avory, Justice 6
Horridge, Justice 20
Lush, Justice 17