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the old and new Commissioners of the Correctional Services
Department, and as a consequence to have had a secret
investigation conducted against him [to verify whether he
was indeed attending hospital on the afternoon of a
scheduled staff interview], to have been assigned to jobs
below his seniority and to have been passed over for
promotion by junior officers. However there are no valid
legal arguments that support these allegations of
victimisation.
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8.
In view of the circumstances of the disciplinary
enquiry and of the unsubstantiated allegations of
victimisation, I recommend that the petition be denied.
This is the advice of the Hong Kong Government with which
our Legal Advisers concur.
9. Under DSP Volume 8 (Dependent Territories) Chapter
9.4.1, petitions which are deemed to be of a minor or
trivial nature are not required to be forwarded to the
Palace. Such petitions can, with the consent of the AUSS,
be given a departmental reply. I attach the relevant text of DSP and the Annex showing this procedure. This petition can be considered as of a minor nature given the
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circumstances which gave rise to Mr Hung's breach of
discipline, the breach of discipline itself and the nature
of the disciplinary action imposed on him. Our Legal
Advisers concur. I recommend therefore that a departmental
reply is sent to Mr Hung through the Hong Kong Government.
Gill Cogan
G Coglin
Hong Kong Department
25 February 1991
WINAIZ/3
CODE 18-77