8 August 1977
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(c) that a number of Caribbean dependent territories, which in recent years have been able to supply their needs for high court judges from local sources (i... the territory or neighbouring territories) will continue to do so. applies to Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands, which use the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court, and the Turks and Caicos Islands which fills its occasional needs for a judge by appointing an acting judge from among its magistracy;
(d) that there will continue to be no need to appoint judicial or legal officers for the British Indian Ocean Territory or Pitcairn.
Based on he above assumptions we have compiled the attached provisional Schedule of probable needs for resident, expatriate, full-time, judicial and senior legal officers in 1980. (Under expatriate we include all persons recruited from outside the territory itself.) From this Schedule we estimate that the mumber of appointments of resident judicial and senior legal officers which might require filling by expatriates in the 1980s are estimated to be 4 and 9 respectively.
5. The purpose of this circular is to obtain the views of the addressees on the following points:
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(a) on the validity of the assumptions we have made, other than those in relation to independence which, without prejudice, should be accepted for the purposes of this circular;
(b) on our conclusions on the mumber of senior non-resident expatriate appointments needing to be filled;
(c) your best estimate of the likelihood of being able to fill these appointments from local sources, under which we include both the territory itself and neighbouring territories (the latter being particularly relevant in the case of the Caribbean territories).
You will doubtless wish to consult not only your senior judicial and legal officers on these matters but your local Ministers, and there is no objection to your doing so.
To all Governors of Dependent Territories
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JAB Stewart