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c)
To summarise this section on the working methods of the
Inquiry:
i)
ii)
The Commissioner has failed to confine it to relevant
matters and there is little or no concern for relevance
or expedition so that a great deal of irrelevant matters
have been canvassed at great expense in time and cost;
there has been a failure to differentiate between
enquiries outside the hearings, (at which all matters
might be canvassed and the irrelevant discarded) and
the presentation of evidence at the hearings;
iii)
sensational allegations irrelevant to the Inquiry are
being explored which has done (e. g. McDaid) and
will do needless damage to the reputations of the
persons concerned;
iv)
there is an unreasonable reluctance to consider
sensitive matters in private session;
v)
there appears to be in the approach of the counsel
to the Commission of Inquiry a suggestion of bias.
Effect of continued Public Hearings on Police Morale:
Yang J. has indicated on various occasions that he is not
(yet) satisfied that the allegations of homosexuality against the
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