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Registry
No. HKK 14/14
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Mis Excellency
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Sir David Trench, GCMG., MC.,
Government House,
Victoria,
HONG KONG
See revised
Type 1 +
From
trafl
Mr. K. M. Wilford
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
We are glad that in your letter/of 30 August
to Carter you have felt able to accept the principle
of an occasional appointment to the Bench from the
Bar, but are a little concerned that you should lay down as a prerequisite the satisfactionf all three
criteria set out in Michael Gass' ន
ar to
John Moreton of 28 November.
The second and third of these criteria are
clearly reasonable and necessary, and this is
Asary,
acknowledged in the second paragraph of Carter's
letter of 24 July. But it seems to us that to lay
down the first as a firm condition (i.e. that
officers of sufficient calibre were not available in the Judicial and Legal Service") would make it virtually impossible ever to make such an appointment. Moreover it seems to us that it is not appropriate
he object (or one of the objects) is to introduce
to the Bench Judge whose professional experience
was of a different kind from that of the average
Service Judge. The very occasional appointment
from the Bar in furtherance of this object would be
consistent with criteria (c), even though at the time
it might appear to prejudice the career prospects of
an individual officer or officers in the Judicial
and Legal Service. The latter could only claim to
/ have a