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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London S.W.1

UNCLASSIFIED

SAVING DESPATCH

HKK.14/19

p.a.

*1979

From the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

To the Governor, Hong Kong

14 September, 1970.

No. 345

Colonial Legal Service

Colonial Office circular despatches No. 531/532 of 26 May, 1952, and No. 12/53 of 5 January, 1953, dealt with the question of practice by retired Colonial Judges before the Courts of a territory in which they had sat on the Bench.

2.

In your telegram No. 608 of 11 September you agreed that persons appointed in future as District Judges should be required to give the same undertaking relating to practice as is required from a Judge of the Supreme Court. You also agreed that District Judges now in office should be informed by the Chief Justice that, though they have not given the undertaking, the objection to practice applied equally in their case and that they might expect that the Crown would oppose any application from them for admission to practice.

3. I shall be obliged, therefore, if in future the formula set out in paragraph 2 of the Circular despatch of 5 January, 1953, may be applied not only to persons appointed to be Supreme Court Judges but also to persons appointed to be District Judges.

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