CO129-603-6 Legal Department- staff vacancies 28-9-1949 - 24-11-1949 — Page 11

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Hon. A.G.,

I mentioned to you this morning an idea for improving

recruitment to the C.L.S. by appointing on contract at

something lower than the minimum of the Crown Counsel

scale young men just called to the Bar without having

any of the requisite 4 years experience.

The advantages of this would be -

(a) it would fill the gap created by the war;

(b) it would allow these young men to gain ready

experience far quicker than in U.K. and be paid

while so doing;

(c) they could on termination of contract elect either

to return to the Bar at home (having got the rough

edges knocked off) or (if suitable) be appointed

to the C.L.S. permanently;

(a) they, if kept on, would qualify for pension as from

an early age and so bridge the present gap between

administrative officers and legal officers in this

respect;

(e) they could be very useful indeed. After 2 or 3 months

in this office they could take a large number of

session cases

e.g. undefended robberies

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which

require little experience to handle;

(f) a saving in more experience Crown Counsel might be

effected;

(g) a more virile C.L.S. would be built up, as one cannot

help feeling that some of those who join after at

the age of 30 odd would never be any good anyway, and

that is why they join.

Applying this to us, I see in particular the following help

it would give:-

(a) At present we have on paper ↳ Crown Counsel.

We

usually have an effective strength of 2 or 3. These

spend their time mostly on crime with other work thrown

in to fill up when crime is low. Much of their work

could/