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connection with the Monitoring Team that I am writing to

you

3. In the view of our Ministers, it is an essential

aspect of the impartiality of the Monitoring Team that

it should be both appointed and paid by HMG. They

decided that one of the two Monitors should be a Hong

Kong Chinese, and Mr Justice Li, a Hong Kong Justice of

5.nsr Appeal has agreed to serve. The other Monitor will be

Sir Patrick Nairne, a former Permanent Secretary at the

DHSS who is now Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Mr Justice Li will be relieved of his court duties during

the period of the test of acceptability (some 2 months:

but it would clearly be inequitable if the fee he was.

offered was less than his normal salary. It would be

equally inequitable if the other Monitor did not receive

the same fee. Our Ministers therefore concluded (subject

to Treasury approval) that the monthly salary of at Hong

Kong Justices of Appeal should be the bench.mark which

would regulate the level of fee paid to both the desca

Monitors. This works out at a monthly fee of HK$43,500

(taxable in Hong Kong), equivalent in sterling to a daly

fee of approximately £143.00. The Likely total

expenditure on fees for two monitors over two months

would amount to HK$43,500 x 4:= HK$174,000 or roughly

£17,400.enit enT

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. I should be most grateful for your early agreement

that fees may be paid at that level. Both Monitors

have agreed to take on the appointment although the final

details of their remuneration have not yet been settled,

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