PS 8/1/2
JA B Stewart Esq OBE Hong Kong & General Dept
FCO
спорови.
hr Quer hr Green
Quartmil18228/2
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
THE WEST INDIES,
5 September 1977
Jales
HKA 431
KI
29 SEP 1977
میرا
Ex
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JUDICIAL AND LEGAL STAFFING OF THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES IN THE 1980s
Would you please refer to your letter to Governors of 8 August 1977 about the filling of judicial and higher legal appointments in the dependent territories.
2. So far as the Turks and Caicos Islands are concerned I confirm that we would hope for the foreseeable future to rely on non-resident Judges for the Court of Appeal,, under the present arrangements under which we appoint those Judges who constitute the Courts of Appeal for Belize, the Bahamas and Bermuda. We shall also hope to continue the present arrangement under which the Judge of the Cayman Islands Grand Court is made available to us by arrangement with the Cayman Islands Government as the non-resident visiting Judge of the Supreme Court here.
3. In the period contemplated by your circular, it seems unlikely that there will be any further requirement for judicial appointments here since even if the arrangements in the previous paragraph have to be changed, we would seek comparable arrangements with neighbouring courts.
4 There are two posts for resident judicial officers in the Turks and Caicos Islands, one for an Attorney General and one for a Magistrate. Only the Attorney General might prove to be a problem and it should therefore remain in your schedule as a possible need. We are aiming to fill this post by recruitment in Jamaica as we have already done in the case of the Magistrate, and one candidate has withdrawn but we are trying again as UK recruitment is not politically acceptable here at present.
Yours ene
Cathena
A C Watson