THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1980
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WORKING PARTY SUBMITS REPORT TO ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE
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THE WORKING PARTY INVESTIGATING THE LAW RELATING TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE AND THE TAKING OF CONFESSION STATEMENTS FROM PERSONS SUSPECTED OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES SUBMITTED ITS REPORT TO THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE TODAY (THURSDAY).
THE WORKING PARTY ON VOIR DIRE PROCEEDINGS AND JUDGES RULES, WAS SET UP BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE LAST OCTOBER UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF MR JUSTICE YANG.
DURING THE NINE MONTH'S INVESTIGATION OPINIONS WERE RECEIVED FROM HONG KONG LAWYERS AND JUDGES AND OTHER PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS IN THE UK, AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND OTHER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES.
MR JUSTICE YANG TODAY THANKED ALL THOSE WHO ASSISTED THE WORKING PARTY.
MEMBERS OF THE PARTY WERE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS MR D.K. NEWBIGGING AND MR ALEX S.C. WU- MR MAX LUCAS, LEGAL DEPARTMENT- MR C.D. ST. Q. FLETCHER, ROYAL HONG KONG POLÍCE- MR NORMAN WHITELEY, ICAC- MR ROBERT KOTEWALL AND MISS JACQUELINE LEONG, THE HONG KONG BAR, AND MR CHRISTOPHER D'ALMADA, A SOLICITOR. THE SECRETARY WAS MR W.L. YIP.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION EXPANSION TERMED 'FANTASTIC' *****
THE RAPID EXPANSION OF TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AND THE GROWTH IN ENROLMENT DURING THE PAST 10 YEARS WERE TERMED 'FANTASTIC' BY THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), MR DAN WATERS, AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY OF THE KWUN TONG VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE THIS MORNING (THURSDAY).
HE RECALLED THAT IN THE 1960S THE OLD TECHNICAL COLLEGE (NOW THE POLYTECHNIC) WAS, AT THAT TIME, +ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN.+ THE FIRST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE · - MORRISON HILL - WAS NOT OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED TILL SEPTEMBER, 1969 AND SINCE THEN A POLYTECHNIC AND A FURTHER FOUR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES HAD BEEN SET
UP.
+ INDEED, THE GROWTH IN NUMBERS OF TECHNICAL STUDENTS, AT CRAFT AND TECHNICIAN LEVELS, HAS BEEN QUITE STAGGERING AND POSSIBLY UNEQUALLED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, MR WATERS SAID.
HE POINTED OUT THAT IN SEPTEMBER, 1970, THERE WAS LESS THAN 600 PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE STUDENTS AT THE MORRISON HILL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE BUT IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR, WHICH JUST ENDED, THE FIVE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES HAD ALMOST 8 000 PART-TIME DAY-RELEASE STUDENTS- AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 12-FOLD IN TEN YEARS.
/REGARDING THE