No and Date
Name.
Subject
9. Dorft Bill (Iral by Jury)
27756/09 Govenor.
Submits Draft
16 July
Reply
Bill - The Ch. Juskee
and Purine Judge are
Approves introduction of th
Bill.
against proposed
alteration of
law.
30876/09 Govemor. Transmits copy letter
13 Aug 1
from Chamber of Commerce replying to a letter from The Ch. Justice with
objections to proposed
Refers to reply to preced dispatch
reference to Catters
law. and copy latter
from Sir I Piggott.
in rejoinder
30923/09
Confl
Reporting intervreed
13 Aug!
arth Chairman of
Masread despatch with
Chamber of Commerce concern.
in which latter urged
Drichs introduction of
necessity for proposed an Ordu to give tos po
alteration of the law to retire
any public off
owning to well known atto.
partiality of the
Chief Justice
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Stubby Cali
Sir Francis Hopwood.
I had a long interview with Sir Francis
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Piggott, who had seen Lord Crewe and obtained permission
to talk over various questions with me.
The first point which he raised was as to the
vacations of the Judges. He urged that the burden of many heavy cases was very great, that from October to November the Court took criminal cases, then came Christmas and the Chinese New Year, and practically no
work began until after Easter; then the Court sat
straight on until September. There were no proper vaca- tions for the Court, and it was necessary to afford
some relief, and to bring the practice at Hong Kong
Judges slowukne, into line with that which prevails in other Colonies.
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Vacations exceeding
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He said that the three months vacation just enabled a
Judge to pay his expenses to or from England, and he
was strongly of opinion that one of the Judges ought
always to be able to get away during the Long Vacation,
The big firms in Hong Kong always insisted on their employees getting a holiday in the north of China,
which was one month in every two years for the junior
officials and one month in each year for the higher
officials. He thought it was unfair to the Judges to
take the necessary month out of their full pay leave,
and he thought that the vacation of a Court ought to be
placed outside the three months Civil Service leave,
and that the Chief Justice ought to have his Court
vacation in addition to his full pay leave.
2. It was very desirable that the Chief Justice
should have a personal clerk. Every Judge in Great
Britain or Mauritius had his personal clerk. His
present
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