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Enclosure //

Chambers,

16079 £66

RECS

HEG 2 APR 18

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

28th. December, 1917.

In pursuance of my letter of 6th. September I have

by letter of yesterday's date addressed Your Excellency further on the subject of the proposal relating to the extension of the jurisdiction of the Summary Court.

I have the honour now to offer some observations

on the suggestions contained in a memorandum of the Attorney- -General and in a letter of the Incorporated Law Society forwarded with Your Excellency's letter of the 4th. September.

2.

The proposal as to a Short Cause List follows on the system recently established in England, and is suggested as an alternative to increasing the jurisdiction of the Sunmry Court. I have, for reasons already given, protested that no sufficient cause has been shown for refusing to extend that jurisdiction; and this subject should therefore await the con- -clusions at which Your Excellency may arrive on that point.

I see however no objection to establishing a Short Cause List in any event; and I am prepared, after consulta- -tion as to details with the leaders of the Bar and the Committee of the Law Society, to make a Rule of Court for that purpose. Such a Rule will not however interfere with the proposed ex- -tendon of the Summary Court jurisdiction. The brevity of the issues concerned does not necessarily depend on the mount in dispute, although probably the majority of cases suitable for the Short Cause List would involve suns of less than 85,000.

3.

The suggestion contained in paragraph 7 of the letter of the Law Society is exactly the course which I had

His Excellency

Sir Henry May, K.C...G.

Governor.

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