CO129-582-4 Legal Department- vacancies for Magistrates and Crown Counsel 11-5-1939 - 24-10-1939 — Page 18

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Mr.

30,000

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Mr.

Mr.

Mr. A. J. Dawe.

Sir H. Moore.

Sir G. Tomlinson.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

DRAFT.

18-21

29158/5734

Personnel

That while ahhty to undertand the actual speech 9 Chunas prcours hhanks of intnesses contributes may mathintly

not only to speed

almany

int also

In justia, in fact

FURTHER ACTION.

3

4162/16/33

Pursonnel

posts. Legal and judicial

officers are in a special position

in relation to this question of

language qualification, and I

enclose, for your information, a

copy of a despatch on the subject

which Lord Harlech addressed to the

Governments of certain of the

Dependencies in East Africa in 1936

with the terms of which I am in

general agreement.

5.

I observe from paragraph 3

Peel's Keppels

of Sir William Kene's despatch

No.331 of the 12th of June, 1933,

that all courts in Hong Kong are

provided with competent

translators and interpreters and

all proceedings are conducted in

English. That paragraph also

states

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