Independents to review HK's judicial remuneration

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Independents to review HK's judicial remuneration

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Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa has asked the Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service to make recommendations on an appropriate institutional structure, mechanism and methodology for the determination of judicial remuneration.

The committee comprises Chairman Christopher Cheng, laymen Victor Fung and Henry Fan, barrister Anthony Neoh and solicitor Herbert Tsoi. It will submit its recommendations to the chief executive by October.

In recognition of the Judiciary's independent status, the government has been in discussions with it for some time on the establishment of a new institutional structure, mechanism, and appropriate methodology for the determination and revision of judicial pay and conditions of service, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

In May 2002, the Judiciary commissioned Anthony Mason to undertake a consultancy study with a view to recommending an appropriate system for the determination of judicial remuneration in Hong Kong.

On April 23 last year, the chief justice submitted to the chief executive the Judiciary's proposal that the views and recommendations contained in the consultancy report should be adopted.

Having considered the proposal, the chief executive said it would be in the overall interests of Hong Kong to ask an independent body to make recommendations to him on the appropriate institutional structure, mechanism and methodology for the determination of judicial remuneration.

Source: Xinhua

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