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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1988

WHILE NOTING THAT

DIRECT

ACCESS

ΤΟ

THE COMMISSIONER

WAS

THAT THIS

HIM MORE SAID THE

FAVOURED BY MOST PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS, AS IT WAS WOULD EMPHASISE THE COMMISSIONER'S

CONSIDERED

AND MAKE INDEPENDENCE EFFECTIVE AND CREDIBLE IN THE EYES OF THE PUBLIC, SIR DAVID AD HOC GROUP HAD BEEN AWARE OF SOME COUNTER-ARGUMENTS.

HE

THAT NOTED

WAS THAT THE PRIMARY

ANY AGAINST

WRONGFUL

THE PRINCIPLE

THE

INDIVIDUAL

RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROTECTING

ACTS OF THE EXECUTIVE SHOULD REST WITH THE LEGISLATURE AND THE COURTS,

SYSTEM,

UNDER WHICH THE

THE

COMMISSIONER THE PROPOSED REFERRAL SHOULD ONLY INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS REFERRED TO HIM BY A MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, RECOGNISED THIS PRINCIPLE.

THE COMMISSIONER WOULD BE REQUIRED TO INFORM

THE

WAS COMPLAINT AND THE LEGCO MEMBER BY WHOM RESULT OF HIS INVESTIGATION IN EACH CASE.

THE COMPLAINANT, OF THE REFERRED,

THIS PROVIDED A USEFUL MECHANISM FOR LEGCO MEMBERS CLOSELY THE WORK OF THE COMMISSIONER,

ΤΟ MONITOR

OF THE OUT THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT POINTED SIR DAVID ALSO

SUPPLEMENT COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINTS WAS INTENDED TO

THE REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES AND STRENGTHEN THE EXISTING CHANNELS FOR AND NOT TO REPLACE ANY OF THEM.

"IT IS CLEARLY DESIRABLE TO AVOID DISRUPTING THE THE OTHER CHANNELS WHICH HAVE BEEN WORKING WELL.

THE

PRACTICAL

OPERATION OF

OF

DEALING ACCESS

ADVANTAGES "IN SHORT, BESIDES

FOR CHANNEL OMELCO'S POSITION AS AN IMPORTANT COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE ADMINISTRIATION, INDIRECT WITH OUR ALREADY COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM FOR THE REDRESS OF SIR DAVID SAID.

MAINTAINING PUBLIC FITS BETTER

WITH

GRIEVANCES,"

**

SYSTEM

WE ALREADY

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"PROVIDING DIRECT ACCESS COULD DISRUPT THE HAVE WITHOUT PRODUCING ANY REAL COMPENSATING BENEFITS.

VIEW

THAT

ΤΟ THE AGRER THAT HE DID NOT SIR DAVID ADDED INDIRECT ACCESS WOULD RESULT IN BUREAUCRATIC DELAY AND OBFUSCATION,

PROCEDURE TO HONG KONG WAS TOO SMALL A PLACE FOR THE REFERRAL

ON ACT AS AN IMPEDIMENT AND LEGCO MEMBERS WOULD NO DOUBT ACT PROMPTLY THE MALADMINISTRATION COMPLAINTS THEY RECEIVED.

THE

BILL WHITE

WHICH WAS WIDELY FROM THE

THE SECOND MAIN ASPECT OF COMMENTED UPON WAS THE EXCLUSION OF THE POLICE AND THE ICAC COMMISSIONER'S JURISDICTION.

/SIR DAVID