The Archive · 1934

COMMON INFORMERS

London, Nov. 6.

Leave wer obtained in the House of Commons to-day by Sir Gerald Hurst, xc, Conservative member for the Boss Side division of Manchester, to introduce a bill to abolish the right of a so-called common informer {to take legal action for the purpose lof recovering penalties.

Sir Gerald declared that a common informer was a private person who sued for the recovers of statu tory penalties for his own benedt. and was @ complete sneak. He ex-

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