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DESPATCH NO. 5. II.M.POLITICAL AGENCY,
(16404P./1/53) BAHRAIN.
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iLP53^J September 2, 1953.

Sir,
You asked me to let you have some account of
the present state of the administration of Justice

in Bahrain, and I now have the honour to present the
following observations.
2. The progress made since the report of Sir Eric
Beckett has been almost entirely in our own practice,
and I am afraid that we have yet managed to do little
to influence the Joint Courts and tho Bahrain Courts

in tho way Her Mujosty's Government desires.
3. I think wo have made two distinct improvements
in our own practice; Wo have rc-organised and tidied
up the Court Registry and we have brought procedure

in the trying of minor offences and small causes into
lino with that laid down by the Ordor in Council and
the Indian Codes in force. This has been entirely
due to the efforts of the Registrar, The ubolition

of the post of Judicial Assistant, formerly held by a
Pakistani, the creation of the post of Registrar and
the appointment of a trained English Solicitor to it
wore without any doubt the essential preliminaries to
the course of gradual reform that we have in mind.

I have asked Mr.Mawdsley to write a more detailed account
of the working of Her Britannic Majesty’s Court for
Bahrain during the last eight months and I append it
to this despatch.
4. I have myself in the hearing of some appeals
lately, noticed the surprise, and sometimes the

indignation caused to our litigants by what they call
His Excellency Mr.B.A.B.Burrows,C.M.G. ,O.B.E.,
British Residency, /the • • •
Bahrain.

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