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香港政府
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1974
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LEGAL AID FOR TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS
SELFISHNESS OF EYEWITNESSES BLAMED FOR LOU APPROVAL RATE
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ABOUT HALF THE NUMBER OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS WHO APPLY FOR LEGAL AID TO OBTAIN DAMAGES OR COMPENSATION ARE UNABLE TO GET IT BECAUSE OF THE SELFISH ATTITUDE OF SOME PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED+.
THIS +HUMAN TRAGEDY+, THE DIRECTOR OF LEGAL AID, MR. D.F. O'REILLY MAYNE, SAID COULD BE PREVENTED IF ONLY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WITNESS ACCIDENTS WOULD COME FORWARD TO GIVE EVIDENCE AS TO THE CAUSES.
BY PERSISTING IN THEIR ATTITUDE NOT TO GET INVOLVED IN OTHER PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS AND, ABOVE ALL, IN NOT VISHING TO GIVE EV IDENCE IN COURT, THESE PEOPLE ARE OFTEN DOING UNTOLD HARM TO THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS, HE REMARKED.
+MONEY CAN NEVER COMPENSATE FOR THE LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE, OR INDEED, FOR ANY SERIOUS INJURY, HE SAID, +OUT IN PRACTICAL TERMS AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY A KODICUM OF COMPENSATION CAN MAKE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE TO THOSE UHO SEE THEMSELVES AS THE FORGOTTEN ONES IN OUR SOCIETY.+
MR. O'REILLY MAYNE SAID THOUGHT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO A MASSIVE PROGRAMME OF EDUCATION TO EXPLAIN TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHY THEY SHOULD, IN SUCH CASES, COME FORWARD AND STATE WHAT THEY SAW IN RELATION TO ACCIDENTS.
BUT HE FELT THAT PERHAPS THE CEST EDUCATION FOR THEN WOULD BE TO SPEND A FEW HOURS IN THE LEGAL AID DEPARTHENT. +ONE LOOK AT THE DESPAIRING EYES OF A CRIPPLE, CONDEMNED TO EKE OUT HIS LIFE WITHOUT ANY POSSIBLE LEGAL REDRESS, IS PROBABLY THE VERY BEST EDUCATION THAT ONE CAN ENVISAGE. HEART-CREAKING.
IT IS
+A LIFE OF PAIN WITH FEW, IF ANY, CREATURE CONFORTS IS HARD TO FACE BUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON THE JUSTIFIABLY PROUD PEOPLES OF HONG KONG OF HAVING TO EXIST ON +HAND-OUTS+ FROM GOVERNMENT OR FROM THE RELATIVES AND CLANSEN IS DISASTROUS.
+OUR POPULATION DESERVES AND NEEDS A MODICUM OF HUMAN DIGNITY. THIS ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT IS, IN MANY CASES, GONE FOREVER WHEN VICTIMS BECOME PERMANENTLY DEPENDENT ON CHARITY.+
/MC MPHASIZED
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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