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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990
APPOINTMENT OF NEW LAW OFFICER (INTERNATIONAL LAW}
THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL
TODAY DR FRED
(THURSDAY) BURROWS AU
THE
LAW
ANNOUNCED APPOINTMENT OF MR DAVID EDWARDS TO SUCCEED OFFICER (INTERNATIONAL LAW) IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS.
AND LONG
DISTINGUISHED
IN
H.M.
HELD
DEPUTY
CAREER A HAD MR EDWARDS DIPLOMATIC SERVICE FROM 1967 TO THE EARLY PART OF 1990, WHERE HE
COUNSELLOR THE RANKS OF ASSISTANT LEGAL LEGAL ADVISER.
ADVISER,
LEGAL
AND
ADVISER WITH THE COUNSEL, TWO AND THREE NEW
DURING HIS SERVICE MR EDWARDS SPENT TWO YEARS AS LEGAL
TWO BERLIN, IN
YEARS TO THE BRITISH MILITARY GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY IN VIENNA AS GENERAL YEARS AS LEGAL COUNSELLOR TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN BONN, YEARS AS LEGAL ADVISER TO THE UK MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN YORK AND TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON.
MR EDWARDS WORKED AS
AFTER LEAVING H.M. DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, SENIOR COUNSEL FOR A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION IN LONDON.
ENGLAND
IN WITH A LITIGATION,
DAUGHTER AND
MR EDWARDS, WHO IS 50, QUALIFIED AS A SOLICITOR IN
ΤΟ 1967 HE WAS AN ASSISTANT SOLICITOR 1964 1964. FROM SOLICITORS' FIRM IN LONDON WHERE HE PRACTISED COMMERCIAL
HE IS MARRIED WITH A COMPANY LAW AND INTERNATIONAL TAX. A SON.
AS LAW
LAW)
WILL
HEAD
HE
THE GENERAL'S CHAMBERS WHICH THE JOINT LIAISON
(INTERNATIONAL OFFICER INTERNATIONAL LAW DIVISION OF THE ATTORNEY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL LEGAL WORK ASSOCIATED WITH GROUP (JLG).
IS RETIRING FROM THE MR EDWARDS REPLACES DR FRED BURROWS WHO
IS 65, JOINED AGC IN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS. DR BURROWS, WHO
CALLED 1985 TO HEAD THE NEWLY FORMED INTERNATIONAL LAW DIVISION (THEN
30 YEARS IN H.M. DIPLOMATIC THE SPECIAL DUTIES UNIT) AFTER NEARLY SERVICE.
UP THE WORK OF THE
IN THE JOINT
DR BURROWS WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BUILDING INTERNATIONAL LAW DIVISION AND PLAYED A PROMINENT ROLE LIAISON GROUP.
IN THE
AND RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL HE HEADED THE BRITISH SIDE
FOR THE OBLIGATIONS SUB-GROUP OF THE JLG AND WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE
FOR DEALING WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE VERY SUCCESSFUL WORK OF THAT GROUP,
30, 1997 IN AFTER JUNE PARTICIPATION WITH HONG KONG'S CONTINUED
THAT INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, AND THE CONTINUED APPLICATION AFTER DATE OF ALL TREATIES AFFECTING HONG KONG.
MEETING IN LONDON LATER DR BURROWS WILL ATTEND THE NEXT JLG THIS MONTH, HAVING ATTENDED ALL ITS PREVIOUS MEETINGS.
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