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should in relamed (on the long faciale)
Crown Solicitors/only for the purpose of staffing the office of Registrar-General,
if created, and that they should eventually all
I assume that it is,
al' present puformes Solidar
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I refer Amy ti
long term planning and
agon, of course,
that
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port t should
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be called Crown Solicitors. Tf your
Proposal
idtention that one
them should perform
bhe duties now falling to the Grown
Soliciter and that be should be paid the
It is
same salary as the other three?
not quite elear to me why, when Andrews
seates his offic
eu propose that hie
ith adorne unctions/should be transferred to gemeené
Requilian General and their staffa 'If so,is there any necessity to
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retain the title "Crown Solicitor"?
6.
I wonder whether Hong Kong would like
to consider a proposal which has been put
forward here for the African territories
that new appointees to the C.L.S. should be
actually appointed "Legal Officers" in the
first place and that the Government of the
territory should then be free to post them
as magistrates or Crown Counsel as they
thank thought fi If this plan were adopted
for Hong Kong and applied both to Solicitors
and Barristers it would, no doubt, have to be recognised that a Solicitor would not be posted as Crown Counsel so long as thể two professions continue to be separate in
private practice.
7.
I should like to emphasise the
necessity, to which you refer, for giving Crown Counsel an opportunity to do some -: drafting. I entirely agree with you that
it is by no means all legally qualified persons who can draft, or could ever learn to do so, and unless every man is given
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