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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1988

FORCES

AND LAW

IN CHINA IN ENFORCEMENT

"AND DOES THIS NOT SMACK OF THE PRACTICE ADOPTED

THEIR ARMED MEMBERS OF

DEALING WITH AGENCIES?" HE ASKED.

TRADING

IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT HE SAID ANOTHER EXAMPLE WAS THE WAY DEALT WITH THE CHINESE OFFICIAL OR SEMI-OFFICIAL CORPORATIONS IN HONG KONG WHICH ENGAGED IN CORRUPT AND OTHER ILLEGAL PRACTICES.

TWO

ENSURE THAT THERE WOULD NOT BE WE MUST BE CAREFUL TO

ONE FOR COMMUNIST CADRES SEPARATE SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE IN HONG KONG:

COMMON CITIZENS, AND THEIR CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS, AND ANOTHER FOR THE HE SAID.

MAINTAINED IN HONG KONG AFTER IF THE RULE OF LAW WAS TO BE

COMMITTED AN 1997, WE MUST MAKE SURE NOW THAT IF ANY COMMUNIST CADRE

WITH IN THE USUAL WAY, HE OFFENCE IN HONG KONG, HE MUST BE DEALT ADDED.

IN

ΤΟ

LAW FIRMS TO SET UP PRACTICE ON THE PROPOSALS TO ALLOW U.S. HONG KONG BY EMPLOYING LOCALLY QUALIFIED LAWYERS, MR LEE SAID THAT

NOT QUALIFIED ΤΟ ALLOW THEM TO DO SO WOULD BE ALLOW SOMEONE WHO WAS

LAW TO DO SO BY

LOCALLY PRACTISE HONG KONG LAWYERS TO DO THE WORK FOR HIM.

EMPLOYING

QUALIFIED

HONG KONG AND

ENGINEERING

IF THAT LOGIC WAS CORRECT, ANY WELL-KNOWN FIGURE IN

A FIRM COULD SET UP

LAW, MEDICINE, TO PRACTISE ARCHITECTURE UNDER THE NAME OF, SAY, ALLEN LEE AND QUALIFIED PERSONS TO WORK FOR HIM, HE SAID.

CO, BY EMPLOYING

MR LEE SAID YET ANOTHER FAILING OF THE GOVERNMENT WAS HAD FAILED TO GROOM LEADERS FOR THE FUTURE.

HE QUESTIONED WHY THE HEADS OF SO MANY WERE DRAWN FROM FORMER MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS.

THAT IT

IMPORTANT INSTITUTIONS COUNCIL AND RETIRED

BE

ACCOUNTABLE

SURELY THE GOVERNMENT HAD A CASE TO ANSWER AND TO THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD STAY HERE AFTER 1997.

HE ABROAD,

NOTED THAT AT THE TURNING TO HONG KONG'S IMAGE

IN GENEVA,

THE RECENT UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE HEARING

UNDER STRONG CRITICISMS FROM UK AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENTS HAD COME

OF THE U.N. CONVENTION ON COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR POSSIBLE BREACHES

INCLUDING THE PUBLIC ORDER HUMAN RIGHTS ON ORDINANCE AND THE FILM CENSORSHIP ORDINANCE.

A NUMBER

OF

HE ADDED THAT HONG KONG'S

ALSO ATTRACTED A

ISSUES,

TREATMENT OF THE VIETNAMESE BOAT

OF

THE ADVERSE

LOT

CRITICISM FROM

PEOPLE HAS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.

THE

BLEAK

BUT IT INDEED. HE SAID THAT TO MANY,

COME FROM THE BRITISH WOULD BE UNREALISTIC TO EXPECT THE

ON ADMINISTRATION IN HONG KONG. NOR WAS IT REALISTIC TO PIN ALL HOPES

WAS FUTURE CURE

מזין'

CHINA.

/FOR MANY

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