TNAG-0193-FCO40-229-Representations-from-Hong-Kong-Bar-Association-particularly--1970 — Page 39

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

From The Minister of State

23 June, 1969.

Thank you for your letters of the 28 March and

15 May.

I appreciate your continuing concern with the question of appointments to the Bench from the Bar. There have been occasional precedents for such appointments in the past in other territories and your views on the matter will be kept in mind.

I am

When we met in August last year, you raised with me also the question of interchange between members, of the Legal Department and the Judiciary. satisfied, after looking into this, that such movement as takes place is both necessary and desirable.

Gerald de Basto Esq., Q.C.

Hong Kong Bar Association,

Secretary's Chambers,

218 Marina House, Hong Kong.

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