furtker
further attacks
CONFIDENTIAL
There is therefore
no-substantial demand in Hong Kong for the
amendments to be nada.
(b) The introduction of the amendments at this
stage would attract unnecessary attention to the-
Ordinance.
There the matter now resta
ARGUMENT
that
7. The Governor argues that the primary purpose of
Sections 122 and 123 is to protect the courts again
well-drilled and organised mohs; that if the general
public are always to be admitted when sentence is/ announced, trouble coudrise just as readily as t
could from their admission during a trial; and that
in Hong Kong one is pot dealing with a public with
an innate respect for the courats, which are, in the
eyes of the communists, merely a hostile extension
of the Executive, to be disrupted and intimidated if
possible.
& However, despite these arguments, ne
to accept m amendments to Section 123 în terms
paragraph: 5(a) (b)abore, but in the case of Section 122,
rtains that the fact that the section confers no
power to exclude the press is sufficient to ensure that
quate publicity can be given to any proceedings even
both during the hearing of while the Andit is the general public may be excluded therefrom He
ild therefore like Section 122 to remain in its
sent form.
Our Legal Advisers objections to both Section
and 423 are based on he fact that it tire
te rule in the British Judicial system that
sdiction"
rum osses of "parental jurisdiction" and powers
ferred by statute în specific casoa, justice shall
dministered în open ccurb, Legal adviser have
ted out:
لله
mounad.
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