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law of libel and slander. Article 26 of the ICCPR is concerned with equity before the law. This right has been guarded jealously by the legal profession and practice directions issued by the Chief Justice are important administrative rules to give effect to this article.
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This system of complementary modes of human rights protection is not static, but is constantly evolving through new legislation, developments in
developments in common law and refinement of administrative practices. Legislation and rules are kept under that any remaining inadequacies may be
constant review
exposed and
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remedied, and positive improvements made, The
system has worked well and Hong Kong has a good record on human rights.
United Nations Human Rights Committee
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Under Article 40 of the ICCPR states parties to the covenants are obliged to submit a report whenever the Human Rights Committee so requests on measures adopted by them and their dependent territories to give effect
to give effect to the rights recognised in the Covenant. In 1982 the Committee decided these reports should be made regularly at five yearly intervals.
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The
In November 1988 the Committee met in Geneva to discuss the U.K.'s Second Report its Dependent Territories. meeting lasted for one and a half days during which the United Kingdom delegation was questioned intensively, in particular on the application of the Covenant in Hong Kong. The section of the Second Report covering Hong Kong was detalled, and the