THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1.
LA: REFORM CRUCIAL TO CHANGES
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GOVERNOR
THE WORK OF THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION WAS DOUBLY IMPORTANT AS THE COMMUNITY PREPARED ITSELF FOR THE POLITICAL CHANGES WHICH CAN CHEAT, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).
SPEAKING AT A COCKTAIL RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE TO MARK THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION, THE GOVERNOR SAID THAT NEVER HAD THE WORK BEEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN IT WAS AT THE PRESENT TIME.
+ SOCIETY IS CHANGING FAST AND SO ARE ITS PROBLEMS. WHETHER IN THE FIELD OF CRIME, CIVIL LIBERTIES, OR FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, NEW ATTITUDES ARE EMERGING AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND NEW DISCOVER IES CALL FOR A CONTINUOUS WILLINGNESS TO CONTEMPLATE A NEW APPROACH.
+ONLY IF THE LAM IS REGARDED BY THE COMMUNITY AS MEETING THE NEEDS, NOT OF YESTERDAY, BUT OF THE WORLD AS IT IS TODAY ILL IT RETAIN THE RESPECT AND THUS THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
+TO PROVIDE FOR REFORM WITHOUT DETRACTING FROM THE ESSENCE OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS A TASK WHICH CALLS FOR GREAT SKILL AND JUDGMENT BASED ON WIDE EXPERIENCE, + SIR EDWARD SAID.
SIR EDWARD POINTED OUT THAT IT HAD SOMETIMES BEEN SAID THAT LAW REFORM WAS TOO IMPORTANT A SUBJECT TO BE LEFT TO THE LAWYERS.
+NO SENSIBLE REFORM COULD BE CONSIDERED WITHOUT THEM.
+BUT IN HONG KONG MANY DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE HAVE ALSO VOLUNTEERED THE IR VALUABLE TIME AND EXPERIENCE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION, HE SAID.
SIP EDWARD PAID TRIBUTE TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOR THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SHOULDER HEAVY RESPONSIBILITIES AND THEIR READINESS TO CONTRIBUTE THEIR KNOWLEDGE, TIME AND EXPERIENCE TO THE TASK WHICH WAS SO VITAL TO THE WELL-BEING OF HONG KONG.
THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION IS AN IMPORTANT ADVISORY BODY IN HONG KONG. IT REVIEWS THE PRESENT LAW IN PARTICULAR AREAS IN THE LIGHT OF THE CHANGING NEEDS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF OUR SOCIETY, UNDERTAKES WIDE-RANGING CONSULTATIONS, AND WHERE NECESSARY, MAKE PROPOSALS FOR REFORM.
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AT THE RECEPTION, IR EDVARD WELCOVED & IS!T! DELEGATION FROM THE LAM REFORM COMALUSILY OF PENYA, W. WHOM HONG KONG SHARED
İNHERITANCE OF THE COMMON
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