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to include the Judiciary in that.
Latterly, I saw the Acting
Governor, Sir David Allers-Jones, and got a similar impression from
him.
3. I invite your attention to Chapters I (particularly paras 11 and 12, II (paras 14-19) and IX (para 3, Recommendations 1-7) of my
Report. Even under the present regime these are matters which tend
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against judicial independence. First, there is a system of promotion
up the judicial ladder; secondly, judicial officers are not always
seen to be separate from other public servants (e.g. in a single
published list in the Annual Estimates magistrates come below
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interpreters); thirdly, the legal civil service is a fully
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acknowledged and jealously guarded field of recruitment for the
J.D. 66 bench; and fourthly, the current constitutional position is derived
not from local laws but by shadowing the British constitution as far
as that can be done without a Lord Chancellor or anyone like him.
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The independence of the Judiciary is already not as clear or
as well-protected as may be thought in the British Government. The
Lord Chancellor may wish to have that in mind in his discussions.
It
is therefore crucially important to think how to give the Judiciary
the best possible start in the SAR which will have its high degree of
autonomy but be under the sovereignty of China. I am certain that the
best hope lies in ensuring that the Judiciary has its own firm
administrative base. The structure I have proposed provides for
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judicial officers - for courts and tribunals and an administrator
and for them all to come together in an advisory group under the Chief