MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1992
OF
WHERE LEGISLATION WAS HELD TO HAVE BEEN REPEALED
ADVISED
ON THE RIGHTS THE COMMITTEE LEGISLATION, OR FOR GOVERNMENT PRACTICE.
BY THE BILL
I
FOR IMPLICATIONS
OTHER
MR MATHEWS ALSO MENTIONED TWO LEGAL INITIATIVES FOR THIS YEAR.
HAD MR MATHEWS SAID
LAW REFORM THE
COMMISSION FIRSTLY,
REMOVE RECENTLY PUBLISHED ITS REPORT ON "ILLEGITIMACY" WHICH AIMED TO
DISADVANTAGES WHICH AT PRESENT AS FAR AS WAS PRACTICABLE THE LEGAL ATTACH TO AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.
LAW
AND UNFAIR WAS DISCRIMINATORY PRESENT NOTING THAT THE
NOT PERSONALLY THE BECAUSE
TARGET
DISCRIMINATION WAS OF THE
OF THE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MISCONDUCT, MR MATHEWS SAID THE ENACTMENT BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE SERVED TO REINFORCE THE ARGUMENTS FOR
OF CLEARLY OUT WAS
LINE WITH IN AN AREA OF THE LAW WHICH THINKING,
IMPLEMENTING
HE HOPED A BILL COMMISSION'S REPORT COULD BE INTRODUCED LATER IN THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
REFORM MODERN
THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN TO THE LEGISLATIVE
THE COUNCIL
GENERAL ANTICIPATED
PROGRESS
SECONDLY, THE ATTORNEY
IN THE
AREA OF FOREIGN LAW FIRMS AND FOREIGN LAWYERS WORKING IN HONG KONG.
HE SAID THE LAW SOCIETY OF HONG KONG HAD RECENTLY PRODUCED TWO THE REGULATION OF REPORTS WITH ONE CONTAINING OUTLINE PROPOSALS FOR FOREIGN LAWYERS AND FOREIGN LAW FIRMS AND THE OTHER A PROPOSED SCHEME
LAWYERS QUALIFIED FOR THE ADMISSION OF NON-HONG KONG SOLICITORS.
BOTH REPORTS
REPRESENTED
AS HONG
KONG
AN
IMAGINATIVE CURRENTLY GIVING
AND
HE NOTED THAT FORWARD-LOOKING APPROACH AND THE ADMINISTRATION WAS DETAILED CONSIDERATION TO THESE PROPOSALS.
-
BROAD EDUCATION NEEDED FOR CHINESE TO VIEW WESTERN LAW
BROAD
EDUCATION
WAS ONE WAY
CULTURES
-
BRIDGE THE
ESPECIALLY
OF HELPING TO DEEPROOTED GAP BETWEEN THE WESTERN AND ORIENT IN THE WAY THE CHINESE MAN VIEWED WESTERN LAW, THE CHIEF JUSTICE, TI LIANG YANG, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
SIR
AT ADDRESSING THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 1992 LEGAL YEAR HELD
LAW SHOULD BE THE CITY HALL, SIR TI LIANG SAID: "THE ESSENCE OF OUR
MAY HAVE EXPLAINED AND MADE KNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC SO THAT THEY
AS JURY FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS RATIONAL APPRECIATION OF SUCH
AND SO TRIALS, THE BURDEN OF PROOF, THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE COURTS, ON."
A
LAW AND THE COURTS + "AND MORE CHINESE SHOULD BE USED IN THE FOR THE LAW SHOULD BE EXPRESSED IN A LANGUAGE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, HE SAID.
/EARLIER, THE