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Drummond/
Reference....
Mrs Drummond (Protocol & Conference Dept G 79/G) Mr Rushford (Legal Adviser K 188)
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HONG KONG DISTRICT JUDGES
1. If Mr Rushford agrees, then I too agree that he should reply to the Chief Justice on the lines
I suggested in Mrs Drummond's minute of 4 June. notice that in his telegram No 67, Paragraph 12, the Governor has referred to the Chief Justice's letter, but I am not sure that this could be counted as a formal request.
2.
Ferhaps Mrs Drummond could clarify whether we shall need anyone else's agreement in order to bestow the title of "His Honour" on District Judges.
12 June 1974
R.d. Coma.
RB Crowson
Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department
K 247
of
Ref. para. 2.
Since the appointment
of these Distict bout Judges is presumably
the
same as
(who
are entitled
for Judges in the U.K.
to the comtesy
tille of "His Honom") it would follow
Distuit judges are appourited by the Sourinor unch H Dushio Count
Ordiana (cap 5)
5.4
·4(2),
-title
that
no
other
agame authority
Perhaps Gibraltar
would be required.
+ General Dept could confirm
the system of appointment of I there
oblam's the sof ss approved
beforehand.
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