Justice that the law tutor's services must be availed of immediately as he was planning to leave Hong Kong in June this year. Although the Chief Justice has indicated that this project was being pushed ahead the Bar Committee has, at the time of preparation of this Report, had no further information on the matter. On the 27th December 1967 the Bar Committee received a letter on the matter from the Registrar which is annexed hereto marked Appendix “J”. The Bar Committee forwarded this letter to the Law Tutor for comment and his comments are contained in a letter to the Hon. Secretary dated 29th Decemebr 1967 which is Appendix "K".
It is a source of considerable regret that on a matter as fundamental to the administration of justice as the Law Reports the initiative for improvements needed to come from the Bar Committee. It is the more regrettable that when an apparently satisfactory solution has been found energetic action on the part of Government should not have followed.
CHINESE MARRIAGES IN HONG KONG
A Sub-Committee was appointed to examine new proposals for legislation relating to Chinese marriages in Hong Kong, with special reference to the eleven New Recom- mendations of the McDouall-Heenan Report 1965.
The Sub-Committee proceeded on a number of assump- tions, namely: (1) that any legislation should take into account the great changes in attitude to marriage that have come about in China as a whole in the past fifty years, so that the law of Hong Kong does not continue to be an anachronistic relic; (2) that in view of the establishment of the principle of monogamy throughout China, a juridical dis- tinction between the Chinese and European types of marriage is unnecessary; (3) that anachronistic distinctions between
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