§ Sir P. Rawlinsonasked the Attorney-General what is the cost of fully implementing the recommendations of the 158W Report of the Royal Commission on Assizes, expressed as to the cost of building or adopting or providing extra courts and as to the cost of extra salaries arising from the appointment of further full-time judges, respectively.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe full cost of implementing the Royal Commission's recommendations cannot be assessed until the need for new court buildings throughout the country has been reviewed by my noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor. The additional expenditure on judicial salaries will be small, since, as pointed out by the Royal Commission, the salaries of the additional full-time judges will be largely offset by the savings incurred by reduction in the number of part-time judges. In general, Her Majesty's Government see no reason to dissent from the Commission's conclusions on costs in paragraph 330 of its report.