connection with the Monitoring Team that I am writing to
you
3. In the view of our Ministers, it is an essential
aspect of the impartiality of the Monitoring Team that
it should be both appointed and paid by HMG. They
decided that one of the two Monitors should be a Hong
Kong Chinese, and Mr Justice Li, a Hong Kong Justice of
5.nsr Appeal has agreed to serve. The other Monitor will be
Sir Patrick Nairne, a former Permanent Secretary at the
DHSS who is now Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Mr Justice Li will be relieved of his court duties during
the period of the test of acceptability (some 2 months:
but it would clearly be inequitable if the fee he was.
offered was less than his normal salary. It would be
equally inequitable if the other Monitor did not receive
the same fee. Our Ministers therefore concluded (subject
to Treasury approval) that the monthly salary of at Hong
Kong Justices of Appeal should be the bench.mark which
would regulate the level of fee paid to both the desca
Monitors. This works out at a monthly fee of HK$43,500
(taxable in Hong Kong), equivalent in sterling to a daly
fee of approximately £143.00. The Likely total
expenditure on fees for two monitors over two months
would amount to HK$43,500 x 4:= HK$174,000 or roughly
£17,400.enit enT
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. I should be most grateful for your early agreement
that fees may be paid at that level. Both Monitors
have agreed to take on the appointment although the final
details of their remuneration have not yet been settled,
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