TNAG-0073-FCO40-109-Dismissal-from-police-force-petition-from-Chu-Leung-1968 — Page 100

Mr. Carter

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I am very glad that this Hong Kong case has come to me after it has been seen by one of our Legal Advisers and by the Deputy Overseas Police Adviser. This relieves me of any suspicion that I am always on the look out for possible miscarriages of justice in Hong Kong!

2. I see no reason at all to dissent from the views expressed by Sir Arthur Grattan-Bellew and Mr. Hicks that whether or not Chu Leung was guilty of the offences alleged against him it cannot be held that the commission of the offences has been proved. I therefore agree with the proposition in paragraph 4 of Sir Arthur Grattan-Bellew's minute that Chu Leung should be put on pension from the date of his dismissal in 1962. I think this can be done by deeming his dismissal to have been retirement in the public interest.

3. I need hardly add that this case, the Fahy case and one or two others do suggest that something is lacking in the conduct of public service affairs in the colony.

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(L. W. Norwood)

9th October, 1967