§ Mr. LYNCHasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he can give the statutory authority which enables a resident magistrate in Ireland to exclude from the hearing of a case justices of the peace who are actually sitting on the bench with him?
§ Mr. DUKEA justice of the peace in Ireland sitting alone has jurisdiction either by settled practice or by Statuteto dispose of certain classes of cases. Where in such cases the investigation has been commenced before a single justice and his jurisdiction has attached, it has been decided 91W by the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland that other magistrates have not the right to intervene.