§ 72. Mr. Osborneasked the Attorney- General if he is aware of the recommendation made by the Lambeth, London, county court judge respecting the case of Miss Matilda McLaren, Mayall Road, Herne Hill, S.E., who has been a tenant of the same house since 1914, who lives alone and who has been compelled to seek protection of the court from abuse from her new Jamaican landlord, who only arrived in this country in 1948, and purchased the property in 1953; and what steps he proposes to take on the judge's recommendation, that any one found guilty of such practices should be turned back to Jamaica.
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The Attorney-GeneralI have seen newspaper reports of the remarks made by the county court Judge in this case. As my hon. Friend will no doubt have observed, Miss McLaren obtained the injunction she sought, and I have no reason to suppose that the law is inadequate to give protection to other persons in the same position. I do not, therefore, propose to take any steps to implement the Judge's recommendations. It would be deplorable if it were supposed that the application of the law in this country depends on the colour of a person's skin.