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HONG KONG BAR ASSOCIATION
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CHAIRMAN:
HENRY LITTON, Q.C.,
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SECRETARY:
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RICHARD MILLS-OWENS
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SECRETARY'S CHAMBERS
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HONG KONG
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13th June, 1972
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RECEIVED IN RÜGISTRY No.51 20 JUL 1972
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The Rt. Hon. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, K.T., Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,
House of Commons,
London, S.W.1.,
ENGLAND.
Dear Mr Secretary,
Miss Dan 12:16. Dow (Gils & Gen Dept.)
With reference to the Hong Kong Bar Association's Petition dated the 28th November, 1971 (to which no reply has yet been received) I wish formally to place on record, as Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, that any appointment to the Bench of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong of a practising barrister of less than twelve years' standing at the Hong Kong Bar or who has not been ordinarily resident in the Colony during that period, would not command the respect of the Bar. It is of paramount importance to the administration of justice that there should exist between the Bench and the Bar in Hong Kong a sense of mutual trust and respect.
For your information I enclose a list of barristers of twelve years' standing at the Bar and who have been ordinarily resident in the Colony during that period.
I should be grateful for an acknowledgement of this letter.
Yours sincerely,
Fue 196
Enc.
(Henry Litton, Q.C.) Chairman
Hong Kong Bar Association
BAR COMMITTEE
HENRY LITTON, Q. C...
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