Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [Lords].

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 27 Gorffennaf 1923.

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Photo of Sir Kingsley Wood Sir Kingsley Wood , Woolwich West

It was a judgment given in 1922 after the recent Act was passed by this House. What a different view of the matter from that taken by the hon. Gentleman opposite! And I venture to say, a correct view. My hon. Friend has been arguing to-day a point which none of us dispute. It may well be that this Bill takes the right of trial by jury further than the previous Act, but the issue we are putting to the Government this afternoon is this: Are we, or are we not, going to restore the same right to the litigants of this country of trial by jury as existed before the War? That is the simple issue.