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Drummond/

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Mrs Drummond (Protocol & Conference Dept G 79/G) Mr Rushford (Legal Adviser K 188)

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HONG KONG DISTRICT JUDGES

1. If Mr Rushford agrees, then I too agree that he should reply to the Chief Justice on the lines

I suggested in Mrs Drummond's minute of 4 June. notice that in his telegram No 67, Paragraph 12, the Governor has referred to the Chief Justice's letter, but I am not sure that this could be counted as a formal request.

2.

Ferhaps Mrs Drummond could clarify whether we shall need anyone else's agreement in order to bestow the title of "His Honour" on District Judges.

12 June 1974

R.d. Coma.

RB Crowson

Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department

K 247

of

Ref. para. 2.

Since the appointment

of these Distict bout Judges is presumably

the

same as

(who

are entitled

for Judges in the U.K.

to the comtesy

tille of "His Honom") it would follow

Distuit judges are appourited by the Sourinor unch H Dushio Count

Ordiana (cap 5)

5.4

·4(2),

-title

that

no

other

agame authority

Perhaps Gibraltar

would be required.

+ General Dept could confirm

the system of appointment of I there

oblam's the sof ss approved

beforehand.

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