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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1992
MR STRACHAN ADDED THAT THESE POLICIES WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED.
IN
THE OF
PRESUMPTIONS SEEKS THE BILL ALSO
TO AMEND CERTAIN EXISTING ORDINANCE REGARDING EXISTENCE, MEMBERSHIP, AND MANAGEMENT SOCIETIES BY RESTRICTING THEIR APPLICATION TO UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES ONLY.
HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVED THIS WOULD BE THE BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE AND YET ENABLE WITH THEIR EFFECTIVE FIGHT AGAINST TRIADS.
THE BILL ALSO TRIAD-RELATED OFFENCES.
PROPOSES
CONSISTENT WITH THE POLICE TO CONTINUE
TO
UPDATE
FINES
FOR
VARIOUS
WERE SUGGESTIONS THERE SECRETARY SAID THE IMPRISONMENT PENALTIES OF SUCH OFFENCES SHOULD LIKEWISE TO ENSURE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO BE GOOD DETERRENTS.
THAT
THE BE REVIEWED
"WE SEE MERIT IN THIS AND WILL BE PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO
|| HE SAID. EFFECT AT THE COMMITTEE STAGE,
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
THIS
GOVT MOVING TOWARDS GREATER USE OF CHINESE IN COURTS
* * * *
SIR DAVID FORD,
MOVE TOWARDS GREATER USE OF IT IS THE GOVERNMENT POLICY TO CHINESE IN THE COURTS, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
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IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON JAMES K.S. TO, CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THIS WAS NOW IN PLACE THE LOWER COURTS, THAT IS, MAGISTRATES COURTS AND TRIBUNALS, AND
TO MAGISTATES CHIEF JUSTICE ENCOURAGED TRIALS IN CHINESE.
CHINESE-SPEAKING
THE
IN
THE
CONDUCT
THE
IN THE HIGHER COURTS, BECAUSE OF THE GREATER COMPLEXITY OF
BE THE LANGUAGE IN LEGAL LANGUAGE USED THERE, ENGLISH CONTINUED TO WHICH THE PROCEEDINGS WERE CONDUCTED.
HE SAID.
"INTERPRETATION IS PROVIDED IN ALL CASES WHEN
"
IT IS NEEDED,
WAS LANGUAGE
USED ΤΟ DIFFERENT
SIR DAVID SAID THE CHINESE EXTENTS IN COURTS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS.
MAGISTRATES WERE
ALMOST ALL THE TRIALS CONDUCTED
BY SPECIAL
CONDUCTED IN CHINESE.
THESE TRIALS WERE
FOR MINOR
SUCH OFFENCES
AS
LITTERING AND THEY FORMED A VERY LARGE PROPORTION OF ALL WITH BY THE COURTS.
AND
HAWKING CASES DEALT
/THE VAST