TNAG-0261-FCO40-297-Applications-by-judges-for-admission-to-legal-practise-at-Ho-1970 — Page 49

* Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should

reach addressee(s)............

27 February 1970

9

and Telegn

Registry No.

DEPARTMENT

HKK 14/19

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

PRIORITY MARKINGS

(Date).... Despatched

Hastr Immediate норкут

Routine

1600

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

En Clair Code Lypher

Draft Telegram to:-

113

Hongkong

Governor

No.

(Date) 27.2.7.0

27/2.

[Security classification

—if

if any

[

Privacy marking --if any

1

[Codeword-if any]

Addressed to

telegram ................

And to.

repeated for information to

And to:-

Repeat to:-

Saving to:-

Distribution:-

Files HKD

Sur J. Mc Petrie Dr. Rushford

Sur A. Grattan-Bellew

Copies to:-

EXAMINED AT SIGNATURE

1271

Saving..............

M.I.P.T.

Unclassified

(date)

Following for Attorney General from MePetrie;

application of J. T. Williams.

2

To be passed

Information/ for Jackson Lipkin is as follows:

Begins

(a) The distinction between a High Court Judge

in England (who does not retain his

appointment as Queen's Counsel) and a county

court judge (who does retain the appointment)

is based on the method of appointment.

Appointment as Queen's Counsel is by Letters

Patent and so is appointment to the High

Court Bench.

At common law an inferior

office conferred by patent merges in a superior'

office so conferred and is extinguished

thereby.

An appointment as QC therefore

/merges