COVERING CONFIDENTIAL
Mr. Carter
Reference... will (47)
wit (47)
I suggest the substitution of the following for the passage at"A"-"A":
Sir James McPetrie said that, even where there
was a Service candidate suitable for promotion to the
Supreme Court Bench, it might occasionally be desirable
to appoint someone from the Hong Kong Bar who had
had extensive experience of private practice. Such
appointments would, of course, be very exceptional.
He did not think that a very occasional appointment
of this kind would be a legitimate grievance to
members of the Service.
They could not be
expected to like such an appointment, but he thought
it would be more acceptable to them if made at a
time when there were two or more vacancies to be
filled and the other vacancy or vacancies were filled
by Service candidates.
Two vacancies will
Mr.
arise in 1972 when both Sir Ivor Rigby and/Blair Kerr would be retiring."
2.
Substitute the following passage at "B"
Hender
"B":
The Governor said that he was not opposed in
principle to a very occasional appointment from the
local Bar in the circumstances described by Sir James
McPetrie."
1.
порт
JenP.
(J. C. McPetrie)
12 December, 1969
as approved,
Amendment's
Draft can now
with inclusion
be
regarded
of Sw J. Rc Petra's
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