Written Answers to Questions
Wednesday, December 10, 1924
Questions
High Court Judges
asked the Attorney-General whether, in view of this House being asked at an early date to move an Address to the Throne for the appointment of two additional Judges, he will state when, since 1st January, 1922, and how often His Majesty's Judges of the High Court of Justice, all divisions, have been withdrawn from their ordinary judicial duties, for what purposes, and to what extent, with the names of such Judges in relation to such withdrawals, respectively?
Particulars of Judges engaged on extra-judicial business during judicial hours since the 1st January, 1922, as far as it has been possible to obtain them, are given below:
Judge. Business. Number of days engaged. Court of Appeal. Lord Justice Atkin … Irish Deportees Committee 14 Lord Justice Atkin … Insanity Criminal Trials (and 5 afternoon sittings) 3 Chancery Division. Mr. Justice Sargant … Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1922 33 Mr. Justice Sargant … Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1923 25 Mr. Justice Tomlin … Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1923 6 Mr. Justice Tomlin has also been engaged on one day in each week during the present legal year on the same Commission. King's Bench Division. Lord Chief Justice … War Compensation Court 15 Mr. Justice Rowlatt … Income Tax Forms Committee 12 Mr. Justice Salter … Certificate of Naturalization Committee 7 Mr. Justice Rigby Swift … Certificate of Naturalization Committee 3 Mr. Justice Talbot … Syme Committee 4
In addition to the foregoing, the majority of the Judges have sat on various Committees outside judicial hours.
Mr. Justice Rigby Swift … Re-arrangements of Circuits. Mr. Justice Salter and Mr. Justice Roche … Compensation to Irish Judges for loss of Office. Mr. Justice Branson … Infants' Damages.
It has not been possible to ascertain whether the Judges who eat upon the undermentioned Committees did so during, or after, judicial hours: