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CONFIDENTIAL # 2

Enclosure (2)

The Honourable Mr. Justice Gerald Michael GODFREY

Mr. Justice Godfrey was born in England in July 1933 and was educated at the John Lyon School and King's College, London University. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1954 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1971. He was in private practice at the Bar in England from 1954 until 1986. He was made a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1978.

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Hong Kong.

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In 1986 the Judge was appointed to the High Court in

In his last annual staff report, the Chief Justice graded him as very good for knowledge and application of the law and propriety of conduct and good for judicial temperament. noted:-

"His forte is in Chancery work and he has

had some difficult trials which he has done extremely well."

He

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(Julian Betts)

Registrar

18 November 1993

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