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DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
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Lt Col The Right Honourable
Sir Martin Charteris KCB KCVO OBE
Buckingham Palace
From
Private Secretary
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
In your letter of 21 February you confirmed that
would
Her Majesty w be ready to consider a new
candidate for the appointment of Chief Justice
of Hong Kong.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary now wishes
to recommend for Her Majesty's approval the name
of Mr Justice Geoffrey Gould Briggs for appointment
as Chief Justice in succession to Sir Ivo Rigby,
who, as you know, retires in May this year. This
recommendation is supported by the Governor of
Hong Kong.
I enclose a note on Mr Justice Briggs' career. I
also enclose Sir Alec Douglas-Home's formal
submission to Her Majesty in the event of this
recommendation being acceptable,
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