important readjustments.
Whether the law students are to pursue
merely materialistic aims as practitioners of law or who ther success at the Bar would open the door to judicial office is a matter which vitally effects the future of
young men and women in Hong Kong.
18.
a large number of
The Bar Committee, on behalf of the Hong Kong Bar Association, formally requests Her Majesty's Government to clarify its policy as regards appointments to the District and Supreme Court Benches in Hong Kong and to declare that the Government's policy to make appointments to senior judicial posts is based on considerations of merit and experience irrespective of whether the appointments are made from the
Government Service or the practising Bar.
The Bar Committee humbly prays Her Majesty's Secretary
of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs:-
(1)
that Her Majesty's Government clarifies its policy as
regards appointments as aforesaid;
(2) that appointments to the District Court and Supreme
Court Benches be filled on considerations of merit
and experience irrespective of whether the appointments
are from the Government Service or from among the ranks
of the practising Bar.
Dated this
day of Novembe
*
1971
L
نولة
Henry Litton,
C.
Züriche
P. A. L. Wright
William L. Chan
Robert Wej.
Virart Tee
Martin C. M. Lee
санбойный
Arjan H. Sakhrani