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THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE NUMBER

SHOULD BE QUOTED IN ANY REPLY

L/2/127

NO

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

51

R&R

Staffing in the

80's

J A B Stewart Esq OBE

GRAND CAYMAN

CAYMAN ISLANDS

Qurata IT UPON THE SEAS

7 December

...197...

7.........

CAYMAN ISLANDS

Hong Kong & General Department

FCO

LAST

(26

los juegoz

HK04317

8.242.

280E//

Dear Joha

I am sorry that you have not had an earlier reply to your letter of 8 August 1977 on Judicial and Legal Staffing which was passed out for advice before I proceeded on leave and remained unanswered until my return.

2. I agree with the validity of your assumptions with the exception of paragraph 3 (c) in its reference to the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Judge of the Grand Court here has been appointed also Judge for the Turks and Caicos and visits about once a quarter.

3. As far as we can see we shall need an expatriate Chief Justice and Attorney General until the mid 1980s as you have forecast. The posts could possibly be filled by recruitment elsewhere in the Caribbean but salaries, even without OSAS supplement, are likely to be attractive to officers recruited in United Kingdom which is our preferred source. A Caymanian with sufficient breadth of experience to be appointed Attorney General may emerge by the years 1985 - 1990. But there are, as yet, no Caymanian magistrates who might qualify for the Judiciary by this time.

4.

The Attorney General has concurred with these views.

Gevers sever

sever> Tom

T. Russell

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