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PLANTATION

HOUSE,

ISLAND OF ST. HELENA, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN.

Wir Green

Jelles

J A B Stewart Esq

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

1.

Dear Stewart,

Ref PL 520/2

12 September 1977

Please refer to your circular letter of 8 August addressed to all Governors of Dependent Territories.

2.

I confirm that as far as St Helena is concerned your assumptions are valid and that a Legal Adviser will be required perhaps through the 1980s. There is at present no likelihood of a local person obtaining the necessary legal qualifications and experience and even if there were, in a small remote island it is best that senior legal and judicial officers be recruited from outside the territory.

3.

If St Helena develops with an influx of outsiders it is possible that we may need to recruit a stipendiary magistrate from outside, though this is a contingency based on a future possibility it is beyond what I understand the scope of your present inquiry to be. We also have legal requirements in overhaul of our land law and the printing and publication of our revised laws, but these will no doubt be met by officers provided under Technical Cooperation and also do not concern your present study.

HKA 431|4.

SIRY NO. 51 4 OCT 1977

Your sincerely

Leather Loy

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