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should in relamed (on the long faciale)

Crown Solicitors/only for the purpose of staffing the office of Registrar-General,

if created, and that they should eventually all

I assume that it is,

al' present puformes Solidar

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I refer Amy ti

long term planning and

agon, of course,

that

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the

port t should

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be called Crown Solicitors. Tf your

Proposal

idtention that one

them should perform

bhe duties now falling to the Grown

Soliciter and that be should be paid the

It is

same salary as the other three?

not quite elear to me why, when Andrews

seates his offic

eu propose that hie

ith adorne unctions/should be transferred to gemeené

Requilian General and their staffa 'If so,is there any necessity to

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retain the title "Crown Solicitor"?

6.

I wonder whether Hong Kong would like

to consider a proposal which has been put

forward here for the African territories

that new appointees to the C.L.S. should be

actually appointed "Legal Officers" in the

first place and that the Government of the

territory should then be free to post them

as magistrates or Crown Counsel as they

thank thought fi If this plan were adopted

for Hong Kong and applied both to Solicitors

and Barristers it would, no doubt, have to be recognised that a Solicitor would not be posted as Crown Counsel so long as thể two professions continue to be separate in

private practice.

7.

I should like to emphasise the

necessity, to which you refer, for giving Crown Counsel an opportunity to do some -: drafting. I entirely agree with you that

it is by no means all legally qualified persons who can draft, or could ever learn to do so, and unless every man is given

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