HC Deb 26 May 1960 vol 624 c73W
74. Mr. Dudley Smith

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now consider implementing the recommendation of the epartmental Committee on Proceedings before Examining Justices that the present discretion given to examining justices to sit in camera should be replaced by a new statutory power limited to those cases, or parts of cases, where the ends of justice would not be served unless the proceedings were held in camera.

Mr. R. A. Butler

As I informed my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Nottingham, Central (Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux) and my hon. Friend the Member for Barry (Mr. Gower) last week, this matter is under consideration, but I am not in a position to make any statement.