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Mr. Lee has suggested that one way of attracting more local
officers would be to offer them housing. I welcome his recognition of
the fact that improved terms for local lawyers will be needed if they
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are to be attracted to a Service. But attraction is only part of
we cash to retain
Local Senior Crown Counsel who have
the problem. We need to motivate and retain them once we have them. And .c Housing is not the sole answer.
housing have left the department. In their report to the working Group the Law Officers and I have proposed different solutions which we hope
ద will enable the Legal Department to attract, motivate and retain local
counsel.
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the training of bilingual lawyers. My hon. Friend
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Training of Bilingual Lawyers
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Sir, Mr. Yeung Po-kwan has drawn our attention to the need to
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strengthen bilingual legal education in order to meet the requirements of a bilingual legal system. I fully agree with him that
with with the more extensive use of Chinese in courts and the implementation
of bilingual legislation, there will be an increased demand for
bilingual lawyers.
Training future law graduates to become proficient
bilingually is, of course, primarily a task for the tertiary institutions. The idea of introducing law courses to be taught in
Chinese has my full support. Where it can the Legal Department has
been giving assistance to the tertiary institutions to train law students to be bilingual by providing lecturers and by advising on the
planning of curricula.
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