Mr. Rushford
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3.1.
I have no recollection of any reference being made to the 0.D.M. as regards pensions for judges who have been recruited from the legal Bar.
2. My only comment on the draft submission concerns paragraph 10. I do not think it is within the realms of possibility to provide suitable pensions for persons appointed to the Bench from the Bar without giving them terms better than those career officers. A judge recruited from the Bar is unlikely to serve more than ten years, if as long as ten years, and therefore if he is to be granted a pension of sufficient amount to attract suitable recruits, it would have to be on considerably better terms than a career officer would be given who had only served ten years or a little more.
al fratte Beller
(Sir A. Grattan-Bellew)
22 October, 1970