Oral Answers to Questions — British Broadcasting Company. – in the House of Commons am ar 14 Gorffennaf 1925.
Mr Herbert Cayzer
, Portsmouth South
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider the question of the appointment of a Departmental Committee to inquire into the Laws with regard to solicitation and their administration, in view of the demand for such an investigation?
Mr Godfrey Locker-Lampson
, Wood Green
The Home Secretary is considering this, but has not yet had time to arrive at a carefully thought out line of procedure.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Laws are the rules by which a country is governed. Britain has a long history of law making and the laws of this country can be divided into three types:- 1) Statute Laws are the laws that have been made by Parliament. 2) Case Law is law that has been established from cases tried in the courts - the laws arise from test cases. The result of the test case creates a precedent on which future cases are judged. 3) Common Law is a part of English Law, which has not come from Parliament. It consists of rules of law which have developed from customs or judgements made in courts over hundreds of years. For example until 1861 Parliament had never passed a law saying that murder was an offence. From the earliest times courts had judged that murder was a crime so there was no need to make a law.
