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Can you see any reason why judicial officers should be No. They Incuciany
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reason, by virtue of their appointment, that they should be appoint executive treated differently? For example, I note that judicial
officers hold their office "during Our pleasure" (Letters Patent X1V). As far as I am aware HMOCS officers do not hold
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3.
You should be aware that in 1989/90 we had some correspondence with your predecessor, Mr Fifoot, over the eligibility of judicial officers to join HMOCS. (I regret I cannot find the correspondence at present). As you will appreciate, judicial officers are not members of the civil service and were not included in the 1954 White Paper on the establishment of a unified service. However there is no HMO Judicial Service and it has long been our practice to appoint judicial officers as members of HMOCS. More recently, after the minuting with Mr Fifoot, we stopped appointing them as members of HMOCS but instead made them eligible for the duties, rights and obligations bestowed by HMOCS. that this is relevant but I draw it to your attention.
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M V Stone
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