§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Agriculture if, in view of the fact that 88 farmers were dispossessed in 1952 and have no right of appeal to an English court of law, he will introduce legislation to enable such persons to have a right of appeal to a court of law.
§ Sir T. DugdaleThere is a right of appeal to an agricultural land tribunal, whose chairman is a barrister of standing appointed by the Lord Chancellor. These tribunals are statutory bodies set up for the purpose. and are fully competent to judge impartially the agricultural merits of a proposal to dispossess. Under the general law the High Court has certain powers of supervision over the decisions of these and similar tribunals, as, for example, if they exceed their jurisdiction or their decision is, on the face of it, wrong in law.