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3. MIS INTEREST IN ADMINISTRATION AND APTITUDE FOR IT ARE LIKELY

TO GROW WITH INCREASED RESPONSIBILITY. EVEN WITH THE MERE PROSPECT

OF THE LATTER SIR MICHAEL TELLS ME THERE ARE ALREADY SIGNS OF THE

DEVELOPMENT.

40 DESPITE HIS LIMITATIONS HE HAS A GREATER DEGREE OF PERSONAL.

AUTHORITY THAN BLAIR KERR AND HE ALSO HAS, I BELIEVE, A SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE OF HIS OWN LIMITATIONS, AND THE MENTAL ACUMEN TO ENSURE

THAT THEY DO NOT MATERIALLY IMPAIR HIS PERFORMANCE AS CHIEF

JUSTICE IF HE IS APPOINTED.

5. THE ABOVE IS THE RESULT OF DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PRESENT CHIEF

JUSTICE WHO IS IN THE BEST POSITION TO WEIGH AND ASSESS THE

RELEVANT FACTORS AND FULLY ENDORSES MY OPINION THAT, FOR AN

APPOINTMENT LIKELY TO LAST NO LONGER THAN THREE YEARS, IT WOULD

IN ALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES BE WISER TO APPOINT RIGBY.

SIR H. NORMAN WALKER

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