Clause 22. — (Rules of Procedure and Representation of Registrar.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Restrictive Trade Practices Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 July 1956.

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Photo of Mr Moss Turner-Samuels Mr Moss Turner-Samuels , Gloucester 12:00, 30 July 1956

I did not understand that at all, with respect to my hon. and learned Friend. It appeared to me from the explanation of the Parliamentary Secretary, and from the terminology of the Amendment, that it was addressed to the purpose of getting any relevant evidence or data whatsoever from any source, if the Court thought in these matters that that was necessary. I understood that in this way, it would be doing it in a quick and direct way without the formal machinery normally applied in order to get discovery, and that it was doing away with all the ordinary formalities of discovery either in regard to persons or in regard to documentary evidence or data. I understood that the Amendment was introduced because, in a matter of this kind, it is essential that all data and all necessary documentary evidence should be before the Court in coming to its decision.