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Antarctic Territory and St Helena) the needs of the courts will

continue to be adequately served by the appointment of part-time Judges

occasional visits to the territories.

making

(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

or

sources (i.e. the territory a neighbouring territories) will continue to do so.

This applies to Monserrat and the British Virgin Islands, which use the

lind

West Indies Associated States Supreme Court, or of the Turks and Caicos Islands

which fills its occasional needs for a Judge by appointing an acting Judge from among its magestracy;

(d) that there will continue to be no need to appoint judicial or

legal officers for the British Indian Ocean Territory or Pitcairn.

4. Based on the 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

we estimate from outside the territory itself). From this Schedule it appears to us that the

appointments of

of residen

number of resident judicial and senior legal officers appointments which might

require filling by expatriates in the 1980's 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:

the validity of the wis have made

(a)

(a) our assumpti

assumptions,

other than those in relation to independence,

which, without prejudice, should be accepted for the purposes

of this circular;

our conclusions on the number of senior non-resident expatriate

(6)

on

/appointments

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