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From air Denys Roberts, K3E, QC, J
HONG KONG
6 GRAFTON
GOVERNMENT OFFICE
STREET
LONDON WIX 3 L B
J.W. Bourne, esq.
CB,
13th November, 1978.
Clerk to the Lord Chancellor,
House of Lords,
London, S.W.1.
Kheer helped,
Secondment of Judges to Hong Kong
It was very kind of you to give up some of your valuable time to talk to me about various matters of interest to Hong Kong.
Thank you for your help in our search for a new Attorney General for Hong Kong and for the information which you gave me about some of the potential candidates.
We briefly discussed the possibility of the second- ment of one or two High Court judges to the Hong Kong bench and you suggested that I should write to you, setting out the Hong Kong proposals.
You made it clear that the demands on the English judiciary are so heavy that the prospects are slight of any of them being released on a temporary basis.
what Hong Kong would really like, however, is a long term arrangement whereby an agreed number of English High Court judges (one or probably two) should be allocated to Hong Kong.
I wonder if something on the following lines would be worth further examination,
(a) The statutory number of English High Court
judges should be increased by two (e.g. from 75, or whatever the present limit is, to 77).
/(b)
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