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YOUR TELNO 680: BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) ACT: LETTER FROM
THE HONG KONG BAR ASSOCIATION
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MIFT contains a proposed draft reply from Lord Caithness to
the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association. It is based
closely on the advice in TUR.
1.
Calls
2. It occurs to us that one way in which the Steering Committee
might apply the 50 special circumstances points should it prove
necessary, would be to allocate sufficient specia circumsta points to all barristers to ensure that a requisite number of those barristers with the most points were able to secure places
under the scheme. An alternative approach would be to apply special circumstances points to individual barristers with
particular professional or vocational qualifications which set
them apart from other barristers. But we are inelined to think
that the former approach would be more consistent with the idea of compensating for an anomaly which discriminated against barristers as a group and, and more pragmatically, it would Lend itself more readily to ensuring that a specified number of
barristers could be accommodated.
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