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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990

APPOINTMENT OF NEW LAW OFFICER (INTERNATIONAL LAW}

THE

ATTORNEY GENERAL

TODAY DR FRED

(THURSDAY) BURROWS AU

THE

LAW

ANNOUNCED APPOINTMENT OF MR DAVID EDWARDS TO SUCCEED OFFICER (INTERNATIONAL LAW) IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS.

AND LONG

DISTINGUISHED

IN

H.M.

HELD

DEPUTY

CAREER A HAD MR EDWARDS DIPLOMATIC SERVICE FROM 1967 TO THE EARLY PART OF 1990, WHERE HE

COUNSELLOR THE RANKS OF ASSISTANT LEGAL LEGAL ADVISER.

ADVISER,

LEGAL

AND

ADVISER WITH THE COUNSEL, TWO AND THREE NEW

DURING HIS SERVICE MR EDWARDS SPENT TWO YEARS AS LEGAL

TWO BERLIN, IN

YEARS TO THE BRITISH MILITARY GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY IN VIENNA AS GENERAL YEARS AS LEGAL COUNSELLOR TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN BONN, YEARS AS LEGAL ADVISER TO THE UK MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN YORK AND TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON.

MR EDWARDS WORKED AS

AFTER LEAVING H.M. DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, SENIOR COUNSEL FOR A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION IN LONDON.

ENGLAND

IN WITH A LITIGATION,

DAUGHTER AND

MR EDWARDS, WHO IS 50, QUALIFIED AS A SOLICITOR IN

ΤΟ 1967 HE WAS AN ASSISTANT SOLICITOR 1964 1964. FROM SOLICITORS' FIRM IN LONDON WHERE HE PRACTISED COMMERCIAL

HE IS MARRIED WITH A COMPANY LAW AND INTERNATIONAL TAX. A SON.

AS LAW

LAW)

WILL

HEAD

HE

THE GENERAL'S CHAMBERS WHICH THE JOINT LIAISON

(INTERNATIONAL OFFICER INTERNATIONAL LAW DIVISION OF THE ATTORNEY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL LEGAL WORK ASSOCIATED WITH GROUP (JLG).

IS RETIRING FROM THE MR EDWARDS REPLACES DR FRED BURROWS WHO

IS 65, JOINED AGC IN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS. DR BURROWS, WHO

CALLED 1985 TO HEAD THE NEWLY FORMED INTERNATIONAL LAW DIVISION (THEN

30 YEARS IN H.M. DIPLOMATIC THE SPECIAL DUTIES UNIT) AFTER NEARLY SERVICE.

UP THE WORK OF THE

IN THE JOINT

DR BURROWS WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BUILDING INTERNATIONAL LAW DIVISION AND PLAYED A PROMINENT ROLE LIAISON GROUP.

IN THE

AND RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL HE HEADED THE BRITISH SIDE

FOR THE OBLIGATIONS SUB-GROUP OF THE JLG AND WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE

FOR DEALING WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE VERY SUCCESSFUL WORK OF THAT GROUP,

30, 1997 IN AFTER JUNE PARTICIPATION WITH HONG KONG'S CONTINUED

THAT INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, AND THE CONTINUED APPLICATION AFTER DATE OF ALL TREATIES AFFECTING HONG KONG.

MEETING IN LONDON LATER DR BURROWS WILL ATTEND THE NEXT JLG THIS MONTH, HAVING ATTENDED ALL ITS PREVIOUS MEETINGS.

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