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ASSOCIATION
The Hong Kong Bar Association
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Secretariat/Library: LG 3/Floor, The Supreme Court, 38 Queensway, Hong Kong
Interchange No: DX-9099-IC Telephone: 869 0210
Fax: 869 0189
22 March 1991
The Earl of Caithness
Minister of State
Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street
London SW1A 2AH
United Kingdom
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BY FAX & BY MAIL
Mr Morris
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Thank you very much for your letter of 14 March 1991.
We are most grateful to hear that the Hong Kong Government accepts that the issues raised merit serious consideration. We regret however that your letter does not offer anything other than an expression that barristers will be catered for in some unspecified way and the Hong Kong Bar Association finds that highly unsatisfactory.
Whilst we do not doubt the intention of your Government to include barristers amongst the persons considered to be essential to the well being of Hong Kong, it appears that a concrete solution to redress the discriminatory effect on practising barristers has yet to be found. The points system as embodied in the British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) Order 1990 made by Her Majesty was devised to provide an objective criterion for an equitable allocation of British Nationality to members of certain sectors of the society. As it presently stands, the Scheme favours solicitors but at the expense of the practising Bar thereby defeating the object of the Scheme.
Merely referring our concern, to the Governor's Steering Committee with a view "to ensuring that barristers will be adequately catered for" does not in any way relieve the anxiety and sense of grievance felt by our members as a result of the unjust treatment of them albeit the effect was unintended.
Under section 17B of the Scheme, a maximum of 35 points will be given to any
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香港大律師公會
金鐘道38號高等法院低層三樓
Chairmen: Anthony G. Rogers, Q.C. 會長
羅傑志
Hon. Secretary & Treasurer: Denis G.Q.C. Yu 名譽秘書及財政
余國-
Administrative Secretary: Mrs Margaret W. Lam
行政秘書
林韋曼儀
Bar Committee Members:
執行委員會會員
Miss Jacqueline Leong, Q.C. 梁冰嵊
Alan Hoo, Q.C.,
胡漢清
Miss Gladys Li, Q.C. 李志
Robert Ribeiro, Q.C. 李義
Kenneth H.W. Kwok 郭慶偉
Winston Poon
播松輝
Michael Ozorio 歐文豪
Johannes Chan 陳文敏
Andrew C. Macrae
麥機智
Alan Leong 梁家傑
Mrs Lisa Remedios 李吳維敏
Alfred Chan
陳洪慶
Please Address All Correspondence to the Bar Secretariat