TNAG-0363-FCO40-409-Appointments-of-senior-officers-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 71

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

21 February, 1973

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I am grateful to you, as Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, and to the immediate past Chairman, Mr. Litton, and the President of the Law Society of

Hong Kong, Mr. McElney, for writing to me about the appointment of the Chief Justice of Hong Kong.

I have taken careful note of what you say.

letter is a valuable testimonial to the work of the

present Chief Justice over the past years.

Your

In considering what advice to lay before Her

Majesty The Queen I must of course bear in mind both the personalities concerned and also the reasons underlying the present rule concerning retiring age.

Gerald De Basto, Esq., QC.,

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