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Colonial Legal Service
Colonial Office circular despatches No. 531/532
of 26 May, 1952, and No. 12/53 of 5 January, 1953, dealt with the question of practice by retired Colonial
Judges before the Courts of a territory in which they
had sat on the Bench.
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2. In your telegram No. of 11 September you agreed that persons appointed in future as District Judges
should be required to give the same undertaking relating to practice as is required from a Judge of the Supreme Court. You also agreed that District Judges now in office should be informed by the Chief
Justice that, though they have not given the undertaking, the objection to practice applied equally in their case and that they might expect that the Crown would oppose any application from them for admission to practice.
3. I shall be obliged, therefore, if in future the
formula set out in paragraph 2 of the circular despatch of 5 January, 1953, may be applied not only
to persons appointed to be Supreme Court Judges but
also to persons appointed to be District Judges.
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