FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990
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AG RETURNS TO HK AFTER ATTENDING CONFERENCES
KONG THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR JEREMY MATHEWS, RETURNED TO HONG
THE
LAW CONFERENCE COMMONWEALTH
IN ATTENDED HAVING THIS EVENING
COMMONWEALTH LAW AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, LAST WEEK AND THE MEETING OF MINISTERS IN CHRISTCHURCH THIS WEEK.
IN HONG KONG 9 CONSIDERABLE
DURING THE COMMONWEALTH LAW CONFERENCE, MR MATHEWS SPOKE ON THE
WELL AS ON DEVELOPMENTS DRAFT BILL OF RIGHTS, AS
MATTERS. REFORM ARBITRATION LAW AND ON LAW INTEREST SHOWN IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
THERE WAS
DURING THE LAW MINISTERS INTERESTED IN HONG KONG'S LAWS ON THE FREEZING
CONSIDERABLE HONG ASSETS AND IMPRESSED BY FIELD.
MEETING,
MANY AND
KONG'S
DELEGATES WERE SEIZURE OF DRUG IN THIS SUCCESS
THERE
WAS ALSO A
BILINGUAL IN THE LOT OF INTEREST
LEGAL DEPARTMENT'S SOPHISTICATED PROGRAMME, AND PARTICULARLY IN THE COMPUTER USED IN DRAFTING.
LAW
FOR THE SUBJECTS "THESE MEETINGS ARE VERY VALUABLE, NOT ONLY
DISTINGUISHED JUDGES, LAWYERS DISCUSSED AND THE PRESENCE OF SO MANY
OF BUT ALSO BECAUSE
THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY THEY AND ACADEMICS,
AND JUDGES AND PRESENT TO MEET A WIDE RANGE OF COMMONWEALTH LAWYERS
FACING LAWYERS TODAY TO EXCHANGE THOUGHTS ON THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS.
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A COMMON "THESE MEETINGS UNDERLINE THE FACT THAT HONG KONG IS
COMMON LAW WORLD, MR MATHEWS LAW JURISDICTION AND IS PART OF THE SAID.
DROP IN NUMBER OF NEW TB CASES
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THERE HAS BEEN A CONTINUOUS DROP IN THE NUMBER OF NEW TUBERCULOSIS CASES OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS IN HONG KONG.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HONG KONG TUBERCULOSIS, CHEST AND HEART DISEASES ASSOCIATION, DR S.H. LEE, SAID THIS AT THE ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TODAY (FRIDAY).
HE SAID THERE WAS A TOTAL OF 6,704 NEW TUBERCULOSIS CASES LAST YEAR WITH A NOTIFICATION RATE OF 116.4 PER 100,000 POPULATION, COMPARED WITH 7,021 CASES AND A NOTIFICATION RATE OF 123.6 IN 1988.
/THE FIGURES