CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 114

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REGISTRY, SUPREME COURT;

CROWN SOLICITOR; LAND OFFICER;

AND OFFICIAL RECEIVER.

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These four legal departments are taken together because

there has always been a certain amount of interchange of

officers between them: Deputy Registrars of the Supreme

Court have acted as Official Receivers, Land Officers as

Crown Solicitors, and Assistant Crown Solicitors as Deputy

Registrars, etc. The Commissioners recommend that this

principle be adhered to, and that the officers of these four

departments should be regarded as transferable from onc

department to another as the exigencies of the service require.

This will be of particular importance where home leave

Each of the four departments

however does different work, and the Uominissioners

satisfied that there is little, if any, overlapping. A

certain amount is unavoidable, for it is difficult,

particularly for a non-legal department to say exactly

arrangements are concerned.

where,

are

for example, the jurisdiction of the Crown Solicitor

ends and that of the Land Officer begins.

2. The Registry staff consists of the Registrar, one

Deputy Registrar, one European Accountant, three bailiffs

and fourteen Asiatic interpreters and clerks. The Supreme

Court Ordinance No. 3 of 1873 provides for a Registrar and

two Deputies. Formerly there were two Deputies, one of whom

performed the duties of accountant. The Commissioners

consider that the present arrangement of one Deputy only end

an European accountant, should be continued. There are

vacant the posts of one Class III officer of the Senior

Clerical and Accounting Staff and one Stenographer.

These