COVERING CONFIDER
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London S.W.1
Our Ref: HKK 14/19
3492/13
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Yr. Ref:
My dem Beggis- Rolfe, Boy:
3 March, 1970
Application of retired district judge to be admitted to practise in Hong Kong
Thank you for your letter of 27 February enclosing a copy of the letter
which you have written to Jackson-Lipkin. To complete your records I enclose
copies of the following -
2.
(i) Letter to me of 13 February from the Attorney-General
of Hong Kong.
(ii) F.C.O. confidential telegram No. 112 in reply to (i).
(iii) F.C.0. en clair telegram No. 113 passing on the information
provided by your Office for Jackson-Lipkin.
(iv) Colonial Office circular despatches 531/52 and 12/53.
(v) Record of a discussion between Coldstream, Bourne and
Roberts-Wray of 8 July 1958.
(vi) The report of In re Courtenay Walton Reece (Hong Kong Law
Reports 1963 326), referred to in F.C.0. telegram No. 112.
As you will see from the judgment in the enclosed report the power to admit
to practise at the Hong Kong Bar is vested in the Supreme Court. I do not know
the outcome of the application by Mr. J.T. Williams in the present case;
but we
may hear more about the matter and if we had to consult you I thought it
advisable that you should have a complete set of the relevant papers.
Your Invernity
TCITVEIX.
H. Boggis-Rolfe, Esq., C.B.E.
(J.C. McPetrie)
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