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(a) The governing body of judges of the Inns of
Court here no longer exercise disciplinary control
over their members. In 1966 the four Inns of Court
by resolution set up a Senate to take over, amongst
other matters,the discipline of barristers.
description of the Senate and a history of the Inns
in of Court is to be found in the judgement In re. S.
(a Barrister), 1969 Weekly Law Reports, page 708;
(b) In England all the judges are members of one
or other of the four Inns, whereas at the present
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time none of the judges, as I understand the position,
are members of the Hong Kong Bar. Consequently if the
proposed body to liig kons
governing body of the is to consist of the
Chief Justice, the Supreme Court judges, some of the
resident
Queen's Counsels in Hong Kong and the Attorney-
General, this would mean, in effect, that the profession
was being ultimately controlled not by practising
members of the profession but by the judges;
(c)
If the proposal is correctly set out in (b) abord,
it would seem to be pointless to vest the power of
control by legislation in the judges of the Supreme
Court and then for the judges to delegate that power
to the governing body of the Inn;
(a)
It is for consideration whether it is advisable
and appropriate to establish now by legislation a body
with a Constitution powers and functions modelled
on institutions which have developed during the last
seven centuries or to
4. While I do not dispute that the time may have
come when the power to exercise control over the
admission and conduct of members of the Bar in Hong
confer upon it the archair with
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