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Appointment of Attorney General
The Attorney General, Mr John Griffiths QC, will leave the service of the Hong Kong Government in June 1983 to resume his practice at the English Bar. Mr Griffiths took up his present appointment in May 1979 from England.
He will be succeeded by Mr Michael Thomas QC whose appointment has been approved by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
Mr Thomas is 49 years of age. After national service in the Royal Navy, he graduated at the London School of Economics with an LLB degree in 1954. He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1955 and became a Harmsworth Law Scholar in 1957. He is a bencher of his Inn. He has been in practice at the English Bar since 1957 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1973. He previously served as Junior Counsel to the Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy) and also to the Treasury in admiralty matters from 1966 to 1973. His practice has brought him to Hong Kong on several occasions in recent years.
His interests include music and travel.
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