Registry
No. HKK 14/14
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
..In Confidence
At front cover
DRAFT letter
To:-
His Excellency,
Sir David Trench, GCMG, MC, Government House,
HONG KONG,
by John Moreton promised,
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Mr.
From,
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hoped that after our recent
recent discussions in Hong
Kong you will feel able to accept the principle of an
occasional appointment to the Bench from the Bar.
We,
of course, agree that such appointments will be infre-
quent, so as not to prejudice the career prospects of
Service judges; and that the right candidate from the
Bar must be available.
The question of suitable pension arrangements is
undoubtedly a difficult one. There is a precedent in
the West Indies Federal Supreme Court (Salaries and
Pensions) Act, 1960; Sections 10 and 11 dealt with pen-
sion arrangements for non-Service appointments to that
Court. However, in this case, the circumstances were
somewhat different (i.e. it was a supra-territorial court
drawing on the Benches and Bars of a number of terri-
tories for its members) and these more beneficial
arrangements were accordingly applicable to all judges
of the Court, the eventual pensions of Service judges
being reduced by the amount of any other pension due in
respect of previous public service. If you would like
us to do so, we will ask the ODM to look more closely
Any
into the arrangements that were made in e.g. Nigeria
where occasional appointments from the Bar were made
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