HC Deb 30 April 1973 vol 855 cc245-6W
Mr. Rose

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has now received concerning the Criminal Law Reform Committee on the revision of the law concerning evidence in the criminal courts.

Mr. Carlisle

Representations have been received from 26 organisations and over 50 communications from private indivduals, commenting on the report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee on the law of evidence in criminal cases. Some of the observations received have been of an interim nature only and at least one organisation with a major interest has yet to comment.

The organisations from which representations have been received are:

  • The Bar Council.
  • The Birmingham Trades Council.
  • The Brentford and Isleworth Constituency

Labour Party.

  • The British Legal Association.
  • The Association of Chief Police Officers.
  • The National Council for Civil Liberties.
  • The Criminal Bar Association.
  • The Ealing Community Relations Council.
  • The East Saltney Local Labour Party.
  • The Religious Society of Friends.
  • The Greenwich Labour Party.
  • The Hampstead Labour Party.
  • The Council of Her Majesty's Circuit Judges "Justice ".
  • The Justices' Clerks' Society.
  • The Society of Labour Lawyers.
  • The London Co-operative Society.
  • The London Criminal Courts Solicitors'

Association

  • The Magistrates' Association.
  • The Newham North East Constituency

Labour Party

  • The Police Federation.
  • The Police Superintendents' Association.
  • The Progressive League.
  • The Prosecuting Solicitors' Society.
  • The Release Lawyers' Group.
  • The Thurrock Constituency Labour Party.