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End of paragraph 6.
I might add in passing that I was given the impression (perhaps wrongly) that the original proposal for a single Justice of
Appeal sprung from a desire of the former Chief Justice (Sir Michael Hogan) to find a job for himself after he retired as
Chief Justice in 1969 after holding that job since 1955. I
cannot confirm this, but if it were so it is not surprising that the proposal did not commend itself to his successor (Rigby).
I might also mention incidentally that on his retirement Hogan
became part-time president of the Brunei Court of Appeal, which
is staffed by Hong Kong judges. Rigby is now vexed because Hogan
is trying to prolong his own tenure of the Presidency of the
Brunei Court by getting the present retiring age of 65 raised
by an enactment of the Brunei legislature this would defeat
Rigby's hopes of getting the presidency on his own retirement
as Chief Justice, Hong Kong (and Chief Justice, Brunei) next year when he reaches the Hong Kong retiring age of 62.
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