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Her Majesty's Commissioner ANGUILLA

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JUDICIAL AND LEGAL STAFFING OF THE DEF EN DENT TERRITORIES IN THE 1980s

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Please refer to your letter of 8 august. As regards the judiciary, the hope is that, after separation, Anguilla will be able to return to the jurisdiction of the WIAS Supreme Court. In that event the need for Anguilla to have its own Appeal Court and High Court Judges will fall away. However if for any reason that proves impossible, then I agree that we shall probably be able to continue to find suitable persons from outside the territory for appointment as non-resident Judges of the Court of appeal (though I would not like to say that this could be done "with no difficulty"). I would agree that it would be sufficient for Anguilla to continue to be served by a part-time High Court Judge making occasional visits. However it has not proved easy to find suitable persons to serve as a Judge in these circumstances, and it might be adviseable to try to retain an option to share the services of some other Judge in the region eg Cayman Islands, or possibly even Belize?

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„ith regard to the attorney-General, I agree that there will almost certainly continue to be a need for a full-time resident expatriate -G in the 1980s. The likelihood of recruiting a suitable person in the region is small, partly for financial reasons. written separately to Duff about the general question of staffing of the Dependent Territories, and my letter contains some comments about the unsatisfactory feature of the present differentiations between the terms and conditions of service of the Chief Secretary and the A-G (at present the former is on TC terms, and the latter on Com).

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