§ Mr. DAYasked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the introduction of legislation giving magistrates of summary Courts of Justice the power to enforce the withholding from publication of the names of any accused persons who have been charged with either indecency or street offences, and who have been discharged through insufficient evidence or police mistakes generally; and will he consider in any future legislation the same protection to witnesses who may be called to give corroborative evidence in such charges?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI see no reason to differentiate the practice in regard to street offences from other and more serious ones of which persons may be acquitted.