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the opportunity of proving that they are not would
be unsatisfactory as they would all commit perjury
and persuade the Court wrongly of their innocence.
This seems to be a serious reflection upon the
character of the owners and masters and on the
ability of the Courts in Hong Kong. The
Superintendent says that he only prosecutes where
it is patent from the facts that an owner or
master must have been a party or have connived at
the offence. That being so, I cannot think that
the Courts are so simple as to find in such cases
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that it has been proved that the owner or master
and that the
was not implicated
offence in question was committed without his
knowledge, consent or connivance merely because
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the master says so, and the Courts who, ex hypothesi
are in delicto, support him.
If you can guarantee that there will be
no incidents such as there were in the Straits,
perhaps there is no harm in leaving the law as it
is. I do not know, however, whether we can make
such an assumption.
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