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MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1987

"ALSO THE PRESENT SYSTEM IS NOT AS CLEAR OR AS EVEN-HANDED AS IT COULD BE. IT IS CERTAINLY NOT SET OUT FOR ALL TO SEE, MR THOMAS SAID.

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SETTLED OR AS IN OUR LAWS

AREA WOULD HAVE TO FULLY LOCAL AND STATUTORY CODE

HE WARNED HOWEVER THAT ANY REVIEW IN THIS PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY. THERE WILL BE A NEED TO CONSULT OVERSEAS LAWYERS IF HONG KONG IS TO CONSIDER HAVING A TO GOVERN THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF FOREIGN LAWYERS IN HONG KONG.

NOW

AND INTERNATIONAL

SAID MR THOMAS: "THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THEIR CONTRIBUTION ΤΟ HONG KONG'S PROSPERITY AND IN THE LONG TERM IMPORTANCE IS VITAL TO OUR SUCCESS.

THEM LEGAL

RECOGNITION

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"ONE WAY OF DOING SO WOULD BE TO GIVE AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF HONG KONG'S LEGAL SYSTEM.'

OF FOREIGN LAWYERS WORKING IN HE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE TOPIC HONG KONG HAD ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED IN THE WORKING PARTY LOOKING AT IN AUGUST THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS' ORDINACE, SET UP BY THE GOVERNOR

CHIEF JUSTICE. "THIS SEEMS LAST YEAR UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE

HE SAID. THE OBVIOUS PLACE FOR THESE IDEAS TO BE CONSIDERED,

NO JOBS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY) STRESSED FIND ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO KONG.

A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT EVEN IF THEY FOR A SHORT WHILE, THEY WOULD SOON BE DISCOVERED.

THAT THERE WAS A JOB IN HONG

WOULD GET AWAY

MAKING "THIS IS BECAUSE LABOUR INSPECTORS ARE

LEGISLATION TO ANY PLACE OF WORK TO ENFORCE LABOUR PART IVB OF THE IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE WHICH PROHIBITS HE SAID. OF PERSONS WITHOUT VALID PROOF OF IDENTITY,

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REGULAR VISITS AS WELL AS THE EMPLOYMENT

YEAR. SOME

38,000

SUCH

SITES AND

MONTHS THIS FIVE DURING THE FIRST MADE

INDUSTRIAL ON BOTH

FROM RANGING

INSPECTIONS

WERE

ESTABLISHMENTS,

RESTAURANTS TO DEPARTMENT STORES.

FACTORIES,

AND NON-INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION

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