Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London S.W.1
21 February, 1973
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I am grateful to you, as Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, and to the immediate past Chairman, Mr. Litton, and the President of the Law Society of
Hong Kong, Mr. McElney, for writing to me about the appointment of the Chief Justice of Hong Kong.
I have taken careful note of what you say.
letter is a valuable testimonial to the work of the
present Chief Justice over the past years.
Your
In considering what advice to lay before Her
Majesty The Queen I must of course bear in mind both the personalities concerned and also the reasons underlying the present rule concerning retiring age.
Gerald De Basto, Esq., QC.,
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