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respecting a proposal for the establishment of an intermediate Court of Appeal from the Supreme Courts of China, Japan, and Hongkong.
However, my predecessor, Sir John Pope Hennessy, had collected the opinions on this subject.
The majority of these opinions appears to be adverse to the establishment of the proposed Court of Appeal. I would request particular attention to the reports of George Phillippo, formerly Attorney General, and now Chief Justice; and the Honourable E. L. O'Brien, formerly Attorney-General of this Colony.
Enclosure No1. I now transmit copies of these documents. Enclosures 1 to 3.
It would be premature, seeing how recent is my arrival here, to form any decided opinion of my own on this far complicated question. But so far as I have been able to judge,