Crisis of Some Magnitude

1949 to 1972

three mentions

over 23 years

If so, we are invoking a constitutional Crisis of Some Magnitude.

_{(Constitutional Provisions.)}

Mr. Hale - May 16, 1949

I anticipated that the introduction of this Bill might provoke a constitutional Crisis of Some Magnitude, because in 1931, when His Majesty's Government announced that the salaries of the High Court judges were to be submitted to the same cuts as high officers and civil servants, the judges announced that Parliament had no right to interfere with their terms of employment.

_{Orders Of The Day — Administration Of Justice (Pensions) Bill}

Mr. Leslie Hale - Nov. 20, 1950

This is a debate about the whole of local government finance and rating in the middle of an economic Crisis of Some Magnitude - such magnitude that it has caused the Government to take the extraordinary step of freezing all increases in wages and salaries for the time being.

_{Rate Support Grant}

Mr. Howell - Dec. 20, 1972