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FROM

1923

HONG KONG

60896

DATE

Gov Stubbs

352

Bhovem be

17 DEC 23

FOR CIRCULATION :—

SUBJECT

Mr.

Mr.

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V.

A&M. DIS. of S.

Pong Wai Ting, hui Wai Long • Ko Ho hang

bol Govt.

ning

415

Perm U.S. of S.

Part U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

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Previous Paper

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Action-

Subsequent Paper

Gym 53840/14

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127/1

States that action has been

Commented in respect of resumption

tertain land in the hew Territories. Acks that he

7 be referred for the opinion of the hew officers of

matte The Cravo

MINUTES

I do not think that we can ask the

Law Officers to tell us their practice in advising His Majesty with respect to the grant

of a fiat. Section 480 of the Civil

Procedure Code is a misconceived and

mischievous provision for the reasons which are

clearly given by Mr. Kemp, and should, in my

opinion, be amended.

This action also I think is mis-

conceived since it seems to depend upon a

fiction, or what I believe to be a fiction, that a Governor's disregard of his instructions

in respect to assenting to a Bill renders the

Act bad, but if this is so it is not, in my

view, a reason for refusing a fiat. The

modern tendency is not to prevent access to

His Majesty's Courts, and as we know, what is

generally done if it is thought that the

proposed action is not maintainable in law

is to grant a fiat and to give notice that the

Crown will demur. I think that a refusal of

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