HONG KONG BAR ASSOCIATION
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This, in the Bar Committee's view, must be remedied in the near future.
The Bar has no reason to suppose that the present Chief Justice is in any way opposed to the appointment of practising members of the Bar to the Supreme Court Bench and the Bar Committee can only assume that the continuation of the present policy is one undertaken on your personal advice as legal adviser to the Secretary of State.
I would be most interested for any meaningful explanation of what appears to be a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. Tortuous references to recruitment to the "Service" are hardly likely to come within the term 'meaningful explanation'. The Bar has long contended that the distinctions between Principal, Senior and Ordinary magistrates should be abolished and that there should only be one 'class' of magistrates these should all be paid the same pay as 'Senior Magistrates' now receive.
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You are recorded in 1964 as having said you "would give further thought to the representations of the Committee" on this matter. Five and a half years have passed since you made that remark and the Bar, to put it mildly, is getting restless.
With kind regards,
Yourk Bourile,
GB/ji
Chairman
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