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British Honduras.
Consolidate Laws, cup. 8, § 3.¿^
Judges of the Supreme Court are appointed (by Letters Patent under the public seal of the Colony) by the Government in accordance with instructions from Secretary of State. No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Ceylon.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1889, § 9.
Judges appointed by Letters Patent issued under public seal in pursuance of warrants issued by His Majesty under the sign manual. No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. No qualifications prescribed.
East Africa.
Vide Order in Council, 1902. § 17.
Judges are appointed by Ilis Majesty. No qualifications prescribed.
Vide also Eastern African Protectorates (Court of Appeal) Order-in-Council, 1909, § 4.
Falkland Islands.
Fiji.
Ordinance No. 4 of 1901, § 3.
The Chief Justice must be a member of the Bar of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or some British Possession, and of not less than seven years' standing, or must have filled the office of Julge of some Court in the British Dominions.
Ordinance 7 of 1875, amended by
Ordinance No. 15 of 1908, § 3.
Chief Justice appointed (by Letters Patent under the public seal of the Colony) by Governor in accordance with instructions from Secretary of State, No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Gambia.
Supreme Court Ordinance, 1889, § 4.
Chier Magistrate named and appointed by His Majesty. No qualifications prescribed. Legal Assistant. No qualifications prescribed.
Gibraltar.
Supreme Court Consolidation Order, 1888, § 5.
Chief Justice.
Appointed by His Majesty by Letters Patent or by warrant under sign manual and signet. He shall possess such qualifications as to His Majesty may seem fit. Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Gold Coast.
Supreme Court Ordinance, 1876, § 4.
Chief Justice and Puisne Judges.
Governor appoints by Letters Patent in accordance with instructions from
His Majesty. No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Grenada.
Supreme Court Ordinance, 1896.
Manner of appointment and qualifications not prescribed.
Chier Justice.
Hong Kong.
Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, § 9.
Chief Justice and a Puisne Judge.
Governor appoints by Letters Patent in accordance with instructions from Secretary of State. No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Jamaica.
Law No. 24 of 1879, § 7.
Chief Justice and Puisne Judges.
Must be members of the Bar of England, Ireland, or Scotland, of at least five years' standing.
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Assistant to Attorney-General (replacing the Solicitor-General).
Must be a Barrister-at-law or an admitted Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Island. (Vile Law 7 of 1906.)
Oddly enough, I cannot discover a law prescribing the qualifications of the Attorney-General.
Leeward Islands.
(Act No. 2 of 1880, § 5, and Act No. 10 of 1903, § 2 )
Chief Justice and Puisne Judge,
Governor appoints by Letters Patent in accordance with instructions from a Secretary of State.
No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Malta.
Juiges and Crown Advocate.
I can discover no law prescribing qualifications.
Mauritius.
Chief Julye and Puisne Judges.
(Vide p. 238, vol. 2, Laws.)
(Vide also pp. 146–7, vol. 2, Laws, and Ordinance 4 of 1899.)
Crown Attorney.
(Ordinance & of 1883, § 2, vol. 3, Laws, p. 675.)
"Shall be chosen amongst Attorneys-at-Law and Solicitors entitled to practise before the Supreme Court."
Crown Prosecutors.
(Ordinance No. 13 of 1905.)
Must be a Barrister or Advocate admitted to practise in one of the Superior Courts of the United Kingdom, and of at least three years' standing at the Bar. Negri Sembilan.
(Enactment 15 of 1905, § 6 (1)).
Chief Judicial Commissioner and Judicial Commissioners.
No
person shall be appointed who has not for a period of at least five years been a Barrister of England or Ireland, a Member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, or an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Federated Malay States or of the Straits Settlements.
N.B.-There is a similar enactment in the other Federated Malay States.
Pahang,
Perak,
Selangor.
No. 13/1905, § 6 (1). No. 13/1905, § 6 (1). No. 15/1905, § 6 (1).
Northern Nigeria.
(Supreme Court Proclamation, 1902, § 4.)
Chief Justice.
High Commissioner appoints by Letters Patent in accordance with instructions from His Majesty. No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. No qualifications prescribed.
North Western Rhodesia.
Vide Proclamation No. 6 of 1906. High Commissioner may appoint Judges of the High Court. No qualifications prescribed.
Nyasaland.
Order in Council, 1902, § 17.
Judges are appointed by His Majesty. No qualifications prescribed. Fide also Eastern African Protectorates (Court of Appeal) Order in Council, 1909, § 4. Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Pahang.
Tide Negri Sembilan, supra.
Perak.
Vide Negri Sembilan, supra.
St. Helena.
Order in Council, 13 February, 1839, § 2.
Chief Justice.
Shall be a Barrister in England or Ireland, or a Member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, of not less than five years' standing.
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Tide also Order in Council, 27th July, 1863, § vi., giving Government power to constitute and appoint Judges, &c. No qualifications prescribed.
St. Lucia.
(Royal Court Ordinance, 1888, §§ 4, 23.)
Chief Justice.
His Majesty may appoint some person being a Barrister of not less than five years' standing of some place within His Majesty's Dominions. Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
St. Vincent.
(Ordinance No. 4 of 1898.)
Chief Justice.
His Majesty may appoint some person being either an English or Irish Barrister
or Scotch Advocate of not less than five years' standing.
Attorney-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Selangor.
Vude Negri Sembilan, supra.
Seychelles.
(Judicature Order in Council, 10th August, 1903, § 5 (1).)
Chief Justice.
Must be a Barrister or Advocate admitted to practise in one of the Superior Courts of the United Kingdom, and of at least five years' standing at the Bar. Crown Prosecutor.
(Ordinance No. 35 of 1903, § 2 (1).)
Must be a Barrister or Advocate admitted to practise in one of the Superior Courts of the United Kingdom, and of at least three years' standing at the Bar.
Sierra Leone.
(Ordinance No. 14 of 1904, § 37, and No. 1 of 1905, § 3.)
Chief Justice and l'uisne Judges.
Governor appoints by Letters Patent in accordance with instructions from
His Majesty. No qualifications prescribed.
Master of the Supreme Court.
Must be an admitted Barrister or Attorney of the Supreme Court, or a Barrister, Advocate, or Attorney of one of the Superior Courts in England, Scotland, or Ireland.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Southern Nigeria.
(Revised Laws, cap. III, § 4.)
Chief Justice and Judges.
Governor appoints by Letters Patent in accordance with instructions from His Majesty. No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. No qualifications prescribed.
Southern Rhodesia.
(See Order in Council, 1898, § 52.)
Judges of the High Court.
Appointed by a Secretary of State on the nomination of the British South Africa Co. No qualifications prescribed.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General. (Vile Ordinance No. 3 of 1899.)
Appointed by a Secretary of State upon the nomination of the British South Africa Co. No qualifications prescribed.
Straits Settlements.
(Ordinance No. 30 of 1907, § 6 (1).)
Chief Justice and l'uisne Judges.
Must be a Barrister of England or Ireland or a Member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland of at least five years' standing, or must have been a practising Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Colony or the Federated Malay States for at least ten years.
Registrars (of Court).
Vide Ordinance 30 of 1907, §§ 18, 87 sqq.
District Judges.
Fide Ordinance 30 of 1907, § 51.
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General.
I can discover no law prescribing qualifications.
Swaziland.
Assistant Commissioners, Judges, &c.
High Commissioner for South Africa may appoint (vide Order in Council, 25th June, 1903, § 4 and Order in Council, 1st December, 1906). No qualifications prescribed.
Crown Prosecutor.
(Vide Proclamation No. 4 of 1907, § 7.) Appointed by the High Commissioner for South Africa. No qualifications prescribed.
Trinidad and Tobago.
(Cap. 34, § 4, Revised Laws.)
Chief Justice and Puisne Judges.
Governor appoints by Letters Patent in accordance with instructions from a Secretary of State. No qualifications prescribed.
(Governor may appoint a Barrister-at-Law of five years' standing as Acting
Judge.)
Lane Officers.
I can find no law prescribing qualifications.
Turks and Caicos Is., &c.
(Ordinance 5 of 1903, § 6.)
Julge.
Must be a Member of the Bar of England, Scotland, or Ireland of at least five years' standing.
Uganda.
(Vide Order in Council, 1902, § 17.)
Judges of High Court are appointed by His Majesty. No qualifications prescribed. Judges (of Courts of Session). No qualifications prescribed.
(de Ordinance 10 of 1902, § 4.) Appointed by Commissioner (now Governor). Vide also Eastern African Protectorates (Court of Appeal) Order in Council, 1909, § 4.
Crown Advocate.
I can find no law governing this appointment.
Weihaiwei.
Order in Council, 1901, § 13.
His Majesty may appoint a Judge of the High Court, and he must be a member of the Bar of England, Scotland, or Ireland.
Western Pacific.
Vide Pacific Order in Council, 1893, § 8 (2). Judicial Commissioner.
High Court may appoint "a person of legal knowledge and experience."
S.S.,
4th February, 1909.