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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

VACANCY FORM

Indent No. .HK..JUD.3/72....... Judiciary....... Department

1. Vacant office(s):

2 Puisne Judges

The office(s) is/are/not* on the

pensionable establishment.

2. Cause and date of vacancy/vacancies:

3. When required:

4. Passage arrangements;

Creation of 2 posts of Puisne Judge (Please see covering despatch)

To be notified.

By air. The officer will be required to sign passage agreement with the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations undertaking to refund the cost of passages to Hong Kong in the

years. event of his failing to serve in Hong Kong for a period of

5. Duties of office:

The trial and determination of judicial cases.

6. Qualifications required:

Academic:

>

Professional or Technical:

(a) Qualified to practise as an advocate in a court in

England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or some other part of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland having unlimited jurisdiction either in civil or criminal matters, and

(b) qualified for not less than five years to practise

as an advocate or solicitor in such a court.

Experience:

7. (a) Age limits:

(b) Sex:

Male/Female candidate essential/professad.*

8. Married candidates:

9. Terms of appointment:

• Strike out whichever is inapplicable.

* No objection for male candidates, but single candidates or candidates with small families preferred. *Female candidates must be unmarried,

* Unmarried candidates preferred.

*Candidatu

t be unmarried.

*A*---Op_probation.

* Be-On-agreement.

On transfer.

On temporary transfer/secondment...

* E: On promotion of a serving officer.