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Colonies of Australia and New Zealand, where I filled thee Office of Governor for rearly twenty years the opinion prevalent in England cutters subject

is in almost universal force. hor is practica Inconvenience felt there from the Attorney General being permitted to Exercise tips profession ;

and that ow account

ow account of the

reasons, among

t of the following

other reasons which

might be mentioned :.

(a) In the Chief Australasian

Clories, the Attorney General is oftew

rather a politician than a lawyer ;

and consequently is

frequently

without

Much

quuele private professional practice. (b.) In those Colonies, the Attorney-Genera

with

is always provided tritte a large permanent

Staff of paid lawyers who act as Public: Prosecutors, Parliamentary Draftemen,

and the like; and toho performs the various

duties incumbent, in Husmall Crowow":

Colonies, no the Attorney General individually 5. Ow the other hand, thattorney-

General of Hong kong is inhis slow person, at once

at once the Grand Jury,

the

Public Prosecutor, and the Draftsmuan.

of

the Bills and other official documents while he is the only legal adviser of the

Government in the daily conduct of

public.

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