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27 February 1970
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and Telegn
Registry No.
DEPARTMENT
HKK 14/19
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted
Unclassified
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Draft Telegram to:-
113
Hongkong
Governor
No.
(Date) 27.2.7.0
27/2.
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telegram ................
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repeated for information to
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Files HKD
Sur J. Mc Petrie Dr. Rushford
Sur A. Grattan-Bellew
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M.I.P.T.
Unclassified
(date)
Following for Attorney General from MePetrie;
application of J. T. Williams.
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To be passed
Information/ for Jackson Lipkin is as follows:
Begins
(a) The distinction between a High Court Judge
in England (who does not retain his
appointment as Queen's Counsel) and a county
court judge (who does retain the appointment)
is based on the method of appointment.
Appointment as Queen's Counsel is by Letters
Patent and so is appointment to the High
Court Bench.
At common law an inferior
office conferred by patent merges in a superior'
office so conferred and is extinguished
thereby.
An appointment as QC therefore
/merges