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Enclosure 3.
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41
Chambers,
Supreme Court House, Hongkong,
25th. June, 1907.
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sir,
In reply to Your Excellency's letter of
19th. instant on the subject of the remarks recently made by me
on the subject of the insufficiency of the Bench of Judges, I
regret that it is impossible for me to admit that questions can
be addressed to the Judges by the Head of the Colonial Govern-
-ment in connexion with remarks made by them on the Bench, even
though those remarks involve adverse criticism of the Govern**
camente acid mort town matit
-mont.
With regard to the application of this
general principle to the subject matter of this correspondence,
I have the honour to point out to Your Excellency that the
Judges have a duty to perform to the public, and if there is
unwarrantable delay in bringing cases on for hearing, and com-
-plaint is made of such delay in Court, it is the manifest duty
of the Judge to state the reason of such delay. It does not
cease to be his duty because the reason is the failure on the
part of the Government to provide a sufficient number of Judges
to cope with the work of the Court. If such statement is not mad●
the