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desirable that a charge should
be brought against Chau Ming under
Section 45 A of the Ordinance in
question and I would suggest that steps
should be taken accordingly, unless
there are serious objections to such a
course. If such objections do exist,
I shall be glad if you will state in
detail what they are, apart from the question of delay.
3. Although, nullum tempus occurrit
regi, I appreciate that the practice
of calling upon a man to answer a
charge, which might well have been brought
ouce
at the time, some time after the
offence to which it related, was
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committed,us objectionable in principle,
because the accused may not then be in a
position to answer the charge effectively, and
the practice, therefore, is discouraged in
this