for British companies if the rule of law prevails in those territories where they function and tolerate modest expenditure on staffing of senior legal and judicial posts.
5. Willingness to fund the costs will not, however, find the individual staff. Although they cannot now be easily found in UK the rest of the Commonwealth sharing a similiar legal tradition may be a fruitful area of recruitment. There will be senior men in smaller countries with long established bars, for example Bermuda, who would welcome a few years elsewhere. There will be good middle level men in larger countries where their numbers preclude access to the top posts who might welcome the challenge of change and an opportunity to prove themselves elsewhere. There will be refugees from political changes and even from the collapse of the rule of law itself.
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I suggest, therefore, that the UK should fund staffing of an agreed number of legal and judicial posts in an agreed number of former dependencies but ask the Commonwealth Secretariat to undertake recruitment, including from within UK itself. If the Commonwealth Secretariat can undertake the responsibility without additional funding so much the better. The Secretariat already organises some inter-country staffing of this sort.
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Your micerely,
John
J Smith