HC Deb 18 November 1963 vol 684 c40W
70. Sir G. Nabarro

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, while recognising that courts must have means of bringing before them people who neglect summonses for motor offences, if he will introduce legislation to prevent motorists being locked up for nonappearance in court on parking and similar offences of a relatively minor character.

Mr. Brooke

I am considering the law relating to the issue of process in such cases, but I am not yet in a position to make a statement.

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