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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1991

APPOINTMENTS TO THE HIGH COURT AND DISTRICT COURT

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THE JUDICIARY TODAY (THURSDAY)

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ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENTS OF

A HIGH COURT JUDGE AND FIVE DISTRICT COURT JUDGES.

JUDGE THOMAS MITCHELL GALL WAS APPOINTED

WITH EFFECT FROM JANUARY 14, 1991.

A HIGH COURT JUDGE

RECEIVED HIS 1965. HE BECAME OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN

BORN IN BURRA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, IN 1942, MR GALL LEGAL EDUCATION IN ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY FROM 1960 TO BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR OF THE SUPREME COURT 1966.

FROM 1966 TO 1973 WHEN НЕ COUNSEL. HE WAS ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE IN

MR GALL WAS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE JOINED THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN HONG KONG AS A CROWN PROMOTED TO SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL IN 1976, AND TO

HE WAS APPOINTED A CROWN COUNSEL IN 1981. 1982.

OF THE FIVE APPOINTMENTS THREE WERE FROM DEPARTMENT.

WITHIN

THE

OF JUDGES OF THE DISTRICT

TWO JUDICIARY AND

FROM

COURT, THE LEGAL

BRESON MAGISTRATES,

THE APPOINTMENTS OF MISS LEAH CANNON, MISS CLARE MARIE

BURRELL, ALL FORMERLY PRINCIPAL AND MR MICHAEL PETER TOOK EFFECT FROM JANUARY 14, 1991.

MISS CANNON

WAS

IN BORN

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND,

IN 1937. SHE TO 1968, WAS ADMITTED AS STUDIED IN UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO FROM 1962 SOLICITOR IN NEW ZEALAND IN 1968 AND AS BARRISTER THE FOLLOWING SHE WAS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE BETWEEN 1969 AND 1981.

IN 1982, MISS CANNON WAS APPOINTED A MAGISTRATE AND WAS PROMOTED TO PRINCIPAL MAGISTRATE IN 1987.

YEAR.

IN HONG KONG

AND

1948, MISS BEESON OBTAINED LL.B DEGREE BORN IN NEW ZEALAND IN IN UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND IN 1971. SHE WAS ADMITTED AS BARRISTER SOLICITOR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND IN 1972.

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MARCH 1973 MISS BEESON WAS A SOLICITOR IN NEW ZEALAND BETWEEN

AS HONG KONG AND MARCH 1975. SHE JOINED THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN CROWN COUNSEL IN APRIL 1975 AND WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL

A MAGISTRATE IN 1984 IN 1980. SHE WAS APPOINTED

AND PROMOTED PRINCIPAL MAGISTRATE IN 1990.

TO

CAMBRIDGE

MR BURRELL WAS BORN IN ENGLAND IN 1948. HE ATTENDED UNIVERSITY FROM 1967 TO 1970 AND WAS CALLED TO THE BAR IN 1971.

BETWEEN 1972 AND 1986, MR BURRELL PRACTISED AS A LIVERPOOL. HE WAS APPOINTED A MAGISTRATE IN HONG KONG

MAGISTRATE PROMOTED TO PRINCIPAL VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE HONG KONG MAGISTRATES ASSOCIATION.

WAS

IN

1990.

BARRISTER IN IN 1986, AND

HE

IS

THE

THE APPOINTMENTS OF MR COLIN

WHALEY, BOTH FROM COMPLETION OF THEIR PRESENT DUTIES.

THE LEGAL

GRAHAM DEPARTMENT,

JACKSON AND WILL TAKE

MR EFFECT

BERNARD

ON

/BORN IN