Mr David Maxwell Fyfe
Former MP for Liverpool, West Derby
Former MP for Liverpool, West Derby
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I gladly accept the invitation of the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison), who has put the matter most clearly, as far as one can state any doubt clearly, and with great temperance in expression. I do not share the hon. and learned Member's doubts, and I shall try to prevent the rest of the House being bored for too long with what the House usually calls a lawyer's...
I think it does meet the point of the right hon. Gentleman, because I have not applied my mind to the question of whether an ingenious legal mind could not bring this before the court. It still remains an obligation to any body in a Statute to follow the legal sense of the words in so far as the body can find out what is the legal sense. We were wanting to make clear, and I have tried to do...
I will do my best. I should first point out that in the Amendment before the House we have a very wide range. We first of all have the words, "any religious service," and then the words, any propaganda relating to matters of a religious nature. I think that one of the difficulties of the hon. Member is met by the very wide phrase, matters of a religious nature. because as I see it, that would...
Former MP for Liverpool, West Derby
Entered the House of Commons on 6 July 1935 — unknown
Left the House of Commons on 19 October 1954 — unknown
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