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CR 4/3221/63.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HONG KONG.

Re R. /sv

2/9

30 August, 1969.

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No.51

-5 SEP 1969

HKK 14/14

Dear Bunny

Many thanks for your HKK 14/14 of the 24th July, 1969, on the subject of occasional appointments from the Bench to the Bar.

I have consulted the Chief Justice, and think that the principle of an occasional appointment of this kind can be accepted in a very general sense. Nevertheless our views remain as set out in Michael Gass's letter to John Moreton TC 154/68 (GR 4/3221/63) of 28th November, 1968. A prerequisite to any such appointment would be the satisfaction of the criteria set out in that letter, and they cannot be satisfied at present.

However, in case this position should change, I agree that there would be no harm in instituting the sort of enquiry you mention into pension arrangements for purposes of record. Of course apart from Nigeria which you instance, there are many precedents for the payment of terminal benefits to Judges appointed from the Bar to the Bench, ranging from the arrangements made in respect of Judges of the Central African Federation (which I am given to understand were overlavish) to those made in respect of Judges appointed to the various High Courts in India (which I believe were niggardly).

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Yous ever

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W.S. Carter, Esq., C.V.O., Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, S.W. 1.