CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6] — Page 422

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troubled with matters of routine, it became, (not here alone, but I believe in all colonies) the practice to allow the Registrar to communicate direct with the Colonial Secretary. And later, feeling that their position in the service was not commensurate with the importance of their work, the Registrars sought and obtained a recognition, which took the form of their being accorded the status of a Head of Department. I have used the plural "Registrars", because I am tolerably certain that the question has arisen, and has been decided in the same way, in every Crown Colony: and probably about the same period as in Hongkong, in the early "eighties", when Sir G. Phillippo's minute was written.

There is a wide difference between an officer on whom the status of Head of Department conferred and one who is in fact Head of a Department. And in the case of the Registrar, the ultimate control of the Chief Justice is never, and can never be, removed or escaped from. The Registrar is the Chief Justice's executive officer, his staff officer; owing to the fact that he must necessarily act in ninety-nine cases on his own initiative, he is accorded the status of an independent officer, but in the hundredth case his real Chief alone can act, and he resumes his dependence. Those only who are deeply versed in the details of judicial administrative work know what this hundredth case is, and it is impossible to explain it in written words to a layman; the Chief Justice, if he knows his business at all, must know, and the Registrar ought to know. There is not the slightest occasion for friction, nor,

unless

the Registrar is over-impressed with the dignity of his position can there be any. But it is of the utmost importance to bear in mind that the Chief Justice has the full control of the Depart- -ment in his hands, and he is bound to exercise it if occasion arises, even to the smallest detail. To take a concrete case: if I thought it expedient to curtail the tiffin hour, I should have no hesitation in doing so. And to take another instance showing how important it is that the real position of the

Chief