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nant to the whole British conception of life.
There are already a number of persons awaiting trial by the Court, mostly cases for possession of arms, and the members already appointed to sit on the Standing Military Court will now take their judicial oath.
Lieut. Nigel and Mr. Kwan then took their oaths in the witness stand. Less Technical Language: The Commander-in-Chief then said:- You have now taken the oath. I expect each one of you to live up to the highest traditions of British justice. I hope, however, that you and the advocates that appear before you will bear in mind that the procla- mation orders and regulations of a Military Administration are necessarily couched in less technical language than normal civil administration legis- lation, and that you will construe them with commonsense.
I now formally declare the Standing Military Court open and I propose that we adjourn in order to enable it to commence its business.
The Commander-in-Chief then left the Court, Brigadier D.M. MacDougall and Col. Strickland accompanying him to his car.
Those Present: Among the solicitors present at the ceremony were Messrs. Hin-shing Lo, M.K.Lo, M.W.Lo, F.H.Loseby, Peter H.Sin, A. Hon, P.C. Woo, F.H. Loseby, D.H.Blake, C. D'Almada, M.A. da Silva, G.S. Ford, Y. K. Kwan, H.C. Lee, D. L. Strellett and E.S.C. Brookes. Others present included Col. C.H.Sansom, Mr. W. La Bart Sparrow, Mr. Shous on Chow, Mr. Abbas Khan, Mr. J.H.Rutton jee, Mr. T.N.Chau, Mr. Ho Wing, Mr. E.C.Luscombe, Mr. L.R. Whant, ADCI., and Chief Detective Insepctor R. Cunningham.