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

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

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Mr Edward Harney Mr Edward Harney , South Shields

The undertaking which the Attorney-General gave was not that he would delete the Clause if on a free vote it was found to have a majority against it, but the undertaking was that he would delete the Clause if in Committee he was satisfied by arguments on the other side that it did not enlarge the right of trial by jury that existed before the War. I then asked, and I was careful to point it out, whether he was referring to the rights that had been largely taken away during the War or to the enlargement of the rights that existed before the War, and I understood him distinctly to say "the rights before the War."