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No. HKK 14/14
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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Domestic Item No, I
Type 1 +
(41) 2011-45
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NOTE FOR DISCUSSION WITH SIR DAVID TRENCH
GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG
24 November, 1969
Appointments from the Hong Kong Bar to the
Supreme Court Bench
The Hong Kong Bar Association has been pressing
for a number of years for appointments to the Bench
from the Bar. No such appointment has ever been made
in Hong Kong, although in some other dependent
territories occasional appointments of this kind have
been made (and more frequently when a deliberate policy
of "localisation" of the Judiciary has been pursued).
The Governor has recently accepted "in a very
general sense" the principle of an occasional appoint-
ment. However, he has said that a pre-requisite to
any such appointment should be the satisfaction of
three criteria:-
2.
(a) officers of sufficient calibre were not available
in the Judicial and Legal Service;
a suitable member of the Hong Kong Bar was
(b)
(c)
prepared to accept appointment;
and
3.
the circumstances were such that this would not
constitute a legitimate cause of grievance to
members of the Judicial and Legal Service.
Two of these conditions cause no difficulty, the
second being an obvious pre-requisite and the third
/following
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