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RegistryKK14/30(70) | DRAFT
No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
LETTER
Type 1 +
To:-
From
.C. Simpkin, Esq., Overseas Dev. Admin.
G.F. Kinnear
Secret
Restricted.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong
י
Appointments to the Bar Judiciary from the
Bar in Hong Kong
Please refer to your letter of 10 December
(Your Ref. SA 207/333/01 ) about pension arrangemerats for judges pashouted to the Supreme Court Bench from the local Bar. 2. I am most grateful for the very comprehensive
lave
information you supplied concerning the West
Indies' arrangements. However, there are still
two other possible precedents which I feel would
be worth investigating before proceeding any
further.
3. The first of these is Nigeria, where
occasional appointments were made from the Bar
(in one case, of an ex-patriate), long before
there was any question of pursuing a deliberate
localisation policy.
if.
In the second case, payments of terminal
benefits to Judges appointed from the Bar to the
Bench were also made in respect of Judges of
the Central African Federation.
5.
I should be most grateful for any
information you may be able to provide on the
above cases.
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