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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.

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2. In your telegram No. 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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