Re Barnes The Court of Appeal, without calling upon counsel for the Crown, dismissed, with costs, the appeal of the petitioner from the decision of Lawrence J given 22 June 1938 and reported [1938] 3 All ER 327. Sir Wilfrid Greene MR stated that the case was a perfectly clear one, and that the reasons for the decision of Lawrence J were stated so lucidly that it was unnecessary to say anything further.