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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1991
BORN IN ENGLAND IN 1945, MR JACKSON
AT LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY IN 1967.
OBTAINED HIS LAW DEGREE
A HE WAS ADMITTED AS
SOLICITOR OF AND THE SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN 1970 AND AS A BARRISTER SOLICITOR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA IN 1982.
MR JACKSON JOINED THE LEGAL JANUARY 1981. HE WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR
CROWN COUNSEL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL COUNSEL IN 1989.
AS CROWN DEPARTMENT
COUNSEL IN CROWN COUNSEL IN 1982, TO IN 1986,
PRINCIPAL AND TO
CROWN
LAW MR WHALEY, BORN IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA IN 1944, OBTAINED HIS
TOWN IN 1967. OF CAPE
HE WAS A PUBLIC DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY
то 1972, AND WAS FROM 1970
IN PROSECUTOR IN SALISBURY, RHODESIA,
BETWEEN PRIVATE PRACTICE AS AN ADVOCATE OF THE HIGH COURT OF RHODESIA 1972 AND 1983.
IN JUNE 1983, MR WHALEY JOINED THE LEGAL COUNSEL AND WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL IN 1984.
DEPARTMENT
AS CROWN
SOUTHERNERS RETURN TO VIETNAM
* *
FOR THE FIRST TIME, A SPECIAL STOP WAS MADE IN SOUTH (THURSDAY) TODAY
BY THE
THE
FLIGHTS LATEST OF
REGULAR VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO GO HOME.
VIETNAM CARRYING
THIS WAS TO ALLOW 29 VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE TO DISEMBARK HO CHI MINH CITY.
IN
DEVELOPMENT,
THE
CO-ORDINATOR, REFUGEE
MR
CLINTON LEEKS, SAID THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME A GROUP OF SOUTHERNERS HAD
HONG KONG UNDER BY
WELCOMING THE
RETURNED PROGRAMME REFUGEES.
HOME
FROM
ORGANISED
THE UNITED
THE VOLUNTARY NATIONS HIGH
REPATRIATION
COMMISSIONER
FOR
A FEW INDIVIDUAL SOUTHERNERS HAVE PREVIOUSLY GONE BECAUSE OF THEIR SMALL NUMBERS, THEY HAVE RETURNED VIA HANOI REGULAR UNHCR FLIGHTS.
BACK ON
BUT
THE
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE NUMBERS HAVE BEEN LARGE ENOUGH FORM A GROUP FOR RETURN, AND THEREFORE TO ARRANGE A SEPARATE STOP HỌ CHI MINH CITY.
ΤΟ
IN
WERE
MR LEEKS SAID THIS INDICATED THAT THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE GETTING THE MESSAGE THAT THERE WAS NO FUTURE FOR NON-REFUGEES STUCK IN DETENTION CENTRES IN HONG KONG.
NOW "LIKE THE NORTH VIETNAMESE BEFORE THEM, SOUTHERNERS ARE REALISING THAT FOR THE GREAT MAJORITY WHO WILL BE SCREENED OUT AS NON- REFUGEES, HONG KONG IS NOT A SHORT CUT TO A NEW LIFE IN THE WEST.
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