§ LORD STRICKLANDasked His Majesty's Government if they are aware that the Chief Justice of Malta advised another of His Majesty's Judges, after his appointment, to disassociate himself from being a partner in an unlimited partnership owning a newspaper; and that the same newspaper threatened libel actions and has given cause to a libel action; whether the powers provided in the Laws of Organisation and Civil Procedure, and in the (Imperial) Malta Constitution Act, 1932, will be used to support the above advice; if not, whether the Judges of other Colonies will be informed of the implied abrogation of the Colonial Regulations as regards civil servants being interested in trade?
§ THE EARL OF PLYMOUTHI am not fully informed as to the facts referred to in the first part of the Question; but, as at present advised, I can see no grounds for intervention by His Majesty's Government.
House adjourned at nine minutes before eight o'clock.