CO129-508-5 Supreme Court of Hong Kong- slackness of registry accounting methods 28-10-1927 - 23-4-1928 — Page 86

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For many years there has been only one Deputy Registrar and frequently the officer filling that appointment has been a person who has had little or no previous legal experience.

The reduction of the number of Deputy Registrars below the number prescribed by Ordinance has in all probability contributed to the position which has now arisen.

The Committee is of the opinion that the appointment of a second Deputy Registrar, as required by law, is essential to the proper conduct of the business of the

Court.

The person to be appointed as second Deputy Registrar should have a thorough knowledge of accounts.

Had such a person been appointed at the end of 1925 when the Acting Auditor drew the attention of the Government to the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing in accounting operations of the Supreme Court generally, or even in March 1926, when the Treasurer and the Acting

unsuitability Auditor jointly called attention to the entire ansaitabill of the Supreme Court staff for the financial duties which they were called upon to perform, it is impossible that the present position should have arisen.

Such an appointment seems the more justifiable by reason of the fact that a considerable revenue is derived from the Deputy Registrar acting in the capacity of a Commissioner for Oaths to the almost entire

exclusion of all non-official commissioners.

The duties of the Interpreters, the Court Translator, the Probate Clerk and Assistant Probate Clerk, the Companies Clerk and the Typist and General Clerk are such that they should not be called on to do bookkeeping.

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