Lieut.-Colonel WATTS - MORGANasked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to the case of Mr. Thomas Victor Parry, who appealed against the conviction and sentence imposed on him by the Abergavenny justices; is he aware that the appellant as a condition of bail was compelled to enter into a bond of £50, and to further deposit a sum of £75 with the clerk to the justices; and, seeing that, if this practice now extensively employed by these justices is allowed to continue, it will result in preventing appeals being lodged, and thereby possibly in some cases bring about or continue a miscarriage of justice, what steps does he propose to take in this matter?
§ Mr. SHORTTI am making inquiry in this case, and will give the hon. and gallant Member an answer when the inquiries have been completed.