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DRAFT Letter
To:-
Governor,
Hong Kong.
Draft 'B'
Type 1 +
From
Sir Leslie Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
2673.
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We see that the Bill for the Supreme Court (Amendment)
Ordinance 1970 (enclosure 4 to your despatch No. 157 of
4 February) made provision for a new post of Appeal Judge, a
development which Hogan last year informal ly mentioned to
McPetrie as a possibility. But the provision for this new post
and all consequential references to it have been omitted from
the Ordinance itself and the Attorney-General's report makes
no reference to this important change in the policy of the
published Bill. The Full Court (Amendment) Ordinance 1970,
enclosed with your despatch No. 158 of the same date, likewise
omits the references to the Judge of Appeal that are contained
[Take in slip]
in the Bill. We should be prstoful
your
"Hansard"
from wwe note that
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The relevant provisions
in Committee
upon
were deleted
The intervention of Oswald Cheung
who asked for an examiniation of the question of Creating a separate Court of Appeal.
-way you
recommend that Scholes should be appointed to the post of
Senior Puisne Judge. You say that the only specific function
attaching to the post of Senior Puisne Judge is that the holder
This,
acts as Chief Justice when the Chief Justice is away.
however, is an important function and in our view therefore the
Senior Puisne Judge should be the person who (i) has sufficient
/seniority