HALES CROFT,
KIDLINGTON,
ΟΧΟΝ,
KIDLINGTON 15.
and 15/9/30
Dear Lord Passfield,
13th September, 1930.
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A project for establishing a School of Law at the University of Hongkong has now reached a stage when it ought to be brought to your knowledge. I therefore enclose for your information a
It Memorandum drawn up by myself on the 18th July last, marked A. shows how the matter arose. The reasons for the project are given in a letter from Judge Feetham to myself dated 17th April, marked B, in Mr. Masujima's Memorandum, marked C, in a further letter from Judge Feetham to myself dated 25th April marked D, and in a letter from Judge Feetham to Sir Cecil Hurst dated 23rd April marked E. I further append copy of a letter from Mr. Hornell, the Vice- Chancellor of the University.
The idea is, as you will gather from these papers, that the Inns of Court should be moved to take the same kind of interest in the establishment of a School of Law at Hongkong as is taken by City Corporations like the Cloth forkers in technical schools in the textile industries. A number of eminent Benchers in the Inns, to whom I have circulated the papers, have agreed to gather at dinner at 10, St. James's Square, on the 24th October, to consider the proposal.
The invitation has in fact been accepted by the follow- ing:-Lord Tomlin, Sir Cecil Hurst, Sir Paul Lawrence, Sir Charles Clauson, Sir Sidney Rowlatt, Lord Atkin, Lord Hailsham, ir
lexander Wood Renton (late Chief-Justice of Ceylon) Sir Henry Gollan, Lord Reading, Lord Hanworth, Professor Holdsworth, Professor Brierly, Sir John Pratt, Sir Charles Addis (Chairman of the Bank of Hongkong and Shanghai) the Master of Balliol (Chairman of the Universities China Committee) and Mr. Rose of the British American Tobacco Company.
The Lord Chancellor has expressed his regret that he is unable to come owing to a previous engagement at Oxford, but added that the proposal interested him so much that he asked me personally to inform him as to what happened at the dinner.
At this dinner I propose to ask Sir Henry Gollan from his experience of Chief-Justice in Hongkong to explain the importance of enabling the Chinese to get some better knowledge of principles
I shall then ask Sir John Pratt of and practices of English Law.
the Foreign Office to explain the political importance of the matter. Sir Charles Addis, or someone else from the City brought for the purpose, will then be asked to show from actual experience on the spot how serious are the hindrances to the development of
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