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(2) practitioners get judicial experience;
(3)
contented practitioners can play a useful and recognised part without accepting full-time appointment;
(4) the appointment system has opportunities to
assess judicial aptitude;
(5) additional judgepower is at hand for surges
of business.
20.
Whilst the system in England and Wales is not
not wholly applicable to Hong Kong it will serve as a model which can be modified and adapted to suit Hong Kong. If there is a better one I have not heard of it and I suggest that it would save time and expense to follow the English concept but improve on it by extending its operation to all courts and tribunals. I therefore recommend that a body of part-time judges be appointed from the legal profession in liong Kong. A few of its members might be qualified for service in the High Court and in the light of experience, seniority and ability, the others would be specially assigned to one or more of the other courts and tribunals. The scheme for judicial studies proposed in this Report will help with their induction.
21.
I would further advise that the policy for temporary appointment of both deputies and part-timers should be on the following lines :-
(a)
to give future candidates experience in the relevant court or tribunal;
(3)
to see whether a candidate is likely to measure up to the work;
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(c) to take the benefit of the services offered by those practitioners who are competent but who are not seeking full-time appointment; to make the best use of full-timers who are competent to do particular work at a higher level but who are not thought eligible for
(a)
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