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Files HKD Su J. Mc Petrie Rr. Rushford
Ser A. Gralton-Relle
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EXAMINED AT 7.7509
SIGNATURE
15057/23/2~
Following for Attorney-General from McPetrie.
Your letter of 13 February about application for admission
by J.T. Williams.
2. I have no recollection of similar applications to practise
from retired judges of intermediate courts.
3.
Jackson-Lipkin in letter to Lord Chancellor (as to which see paragraph 6 below)
says application is to be heard 2 March. If this is
correct insufficient time for me to discuss question of principle
with Lord Chancellor's Office.
4. I take the view that for same reasons as apply in case of
retired Puisne Judge (Colonial Office circular despatches
531/52 of 26 May 1952 and 12/53 of 5 January 1953) it is
undesirable for retired district judge to practise in territory
where he held that office. The higher one gets in the judicial
hierarchy, the greater is the objection to return to the Bar.
At discussions between Roberts-Wray and Lord Chancellor's Office
in 1958 general opinion was that it would be justifiable to
/require