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TRANSCRIPT OF A LETTER TO SIR DEREK OULTON FROM PETER ROBINSON
In New Zealand
as from:
c/o Nigel Davies Esq
Hayes Dixon
146 Strand
London
WC2R 1JH
7th February 1987
Dear Derek
1.
Many thanks for your letter of 5th January acknowledging
receipt of my Report as to the HK Judiciary. I shall be glad to
discuss it later if you like perhaps when I am in London for a week or
so in May. I am now writing to pass on to the Lord Chancellor's
Department my concern for the need for preparation for judicial
independence in the Special Administrative Region of HK after 1997.
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I saw the late Governor, Sir Edward Youde, in October and felt
that he understood that sound judicial administration will have to be
developed before the Judiciary can establish an independent place in
the SAR and that such development will not occur except by determined
the Judiciary. He told me the public needed the
action
reassurance of a strong Judiciary; that all the main public
institutions were being strengthened; and that it would be wrong not