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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1987
**BUT MEMBERS WILL APPRECIATE
*
COURSE OF A TRIAL, HE SAID.
THAT THEY DO NOT CONTROL THE
UNIT HAD IN OF CASES ARISING FROM IN THE THREE YEAR PERIOD FROM 1984, THE IN 83 · PERSONS UNIT PROSECUTED 44 CASES IN THE HIGH COURT, RESULTING CONVICTED AND THREE ACQUITTED.
MR THOMAS SAID THE DEPARTMENT'S COMMERCIAL CRIME RECENT YEARS UNDERTAKEN A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER COMPLEX COMMERCIAL FRAUD.
MOST OF THESE CASES HAD BEEN LENGTHY AND COMPLEX THEM WERE CASES OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.
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AND MANY OF
ASSURED DR LAM, "NONETHELESS I CAN ASSURE MEMBERS, JUST AS I
LEARNED FROM THE CARRIAN CASE, THAT WHERE THERE ARE LESSONS TO BE
HE SAID. THEY WILL NOT BE LOST ON THE COMMERCIAL CRIME UNIT,
ON THE LOCALISATION OF THE
"
DEPARTMENT. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IMPORTANT MANAGEMENT ISSUE
SAID HE REGARDED THIS AS THE SINGLE MOST THE DEPARTMENT WAS FACING,
A DISCUSSION PAPER ON THE ISSUE WAS RELEASED
BY THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND THE DEPARTMENT'S FOUR LAW OFFICERS TO ALL COUNSEL IN JUNE.
MUST
AWARE OF THE
HAD STUDIED THE DISCUSSION PAPER
THAT EFFORT
WENT INTO ITS ΤΟ PROMOTE MEASURES ΤΟ SPEED
MR THOMAS SAID ANYONE WHO BE
CONSIDERABLE PREPARATION AND OF THE DETERMINATION LOCALISATION IN THE DEPARTMENT.
30 PRR THE PROPOSED TARGET FOR LOCALISATION WAS THAT BY 1992,
CENT OF THE SENIOR CROWN CENT OF THE DIRECTORATE POSTS AND 50 PER COUNSEL POSTS SHOULD BE HELD BY LOCALS.
A
REPORT COMPREHENSIVE
FOR THE
"WE HAVE RECENTLY COMPLETED INTER-DEPARTMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON HOW THESE TARGETS MAY BE ACHIEVED.
WILL ASSIST "I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE VIEWS WE HAVE EXPRESSED
THEY WILL BE ABLE ΤΟ CONCLUDE THEM IN THEIR WORK AND I HOPE THAT THEIR DELIBERATIONS SWIFTLY," MR THOMAS SAID.
AGREED ON THE QUESTION OF BILINGUAL LAWYERS, MR THOMAS SAID HE
WITH THAT
THE MORE EXTENSIVE USE OF WITH THE HON YRUNG PO-KWAN
IMPLEMENTATION OF BILINGUAL CHINESE IN COURTS AND THE
LEGISLATION, THERE WOULD BE AN INCREASED DEMAND FOR BILINGUAL LAWYERS.
TURNING TO THE LEVEL
MR
A
SET BY THE COURTS, OF SENTENCING
HIE HAD THE POWER
SEEK TO THOMAS SAID THAT AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
WRONG IN PRINCIPLE REVIEW OF ANY SENTENCE WHICH HE CONSIDERED TO BE OR TO BE MANIFESTLY INADEQUATE.
"A
HIGH
THE COURT
APPEAL. BUT FOR SENTENCING RESTS WITH
HAVE RESULTED OF
IN
OF
THE
PROPORTION OF THOSE REVIEWED SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN SENTENCE BY COURSE THE ULTIMATE
RESPONSIBILITY
JUDICIARY.
LL
'IN VIEW OF MEMBERS'
SENTENCES,
CONTINUING
CONCERN OVER THE LEVEL OF
REEN
I WILL DRAW THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S ATTENTION TO WHAT HAS
SAID IN THIS DEBATE," HE SAID.
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