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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1990

CLAUSE 6 BR AMENDED TO FOLLOW THE WORDING OF ARTICLE 24 OF THE CANADIAN CHARTER OF GUARANTEED RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS: "ANYONE WHOSE RIGHTS OF FREEDOMS, AS BY THIS CHARTER, HAVE BEEN INFRINGED OR DENIED MAY APPLY TO A COURT OF COURT CONSIDERS COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO OBTAIN SUCH REMEDY AS THE APPROPRIATE AND JUST IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES."

HE SUPPORTED THE LAW SOCIETY'S SUGGESTION THAT

BE

WITH

APPLIED

TO

ON THE PROTECTION OF INTER-CITIZEN RIGHTS, MR LEE AGREED

THAT THE BILL GOVERNMENT

OF

SHOULD RIGHTS INDIVIDUALS AS WELL AS TO PUBLIC AUTHORITIES.

THE

BILL TIME TO

BE

BUT HE ADVOCATED THAT INTER-CITIZEN RIGHTS UNDER THE FROZEN FOR ONE YEAR IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT ENOUGH TRAFT LEGISLATION TO PROTECT CITIZENS FROM UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION AND FPOM INVASIONS OF THEIR PRIVACY.

COMMISSION

MIGHT ALSO

HE ALSO BELIEVED THAT A HUMAN RIGHTS ASSUME PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR MEDIATING INTER-CITIZEN DISPUTES.

MAINTAINED

WHAT

ON THE RESERVATIONS IN PART III OF THE BILL, MR LEE THAT ANY RESERVATION BY ITS VERY NATURE REPRESENTED A DENIAL OF

A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN CONSIDERED TO BE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THE

REMOVE ALL RIGHT. HE THEREFORE URGED BRITAIN AND CHINA TO AGREE TO RESERVATIONS FROM THE APPLICATION OF THE ICCPR TO HONG KONG AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

ON THE TRADITIONAL RIGHTS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR LEE WAS OF SUPPORT THE MUST NOT COUNCIL THE VIEW THAT THE LEGISLATIVE

"IT IS ONLY CONTINUATION OF ANY FORM OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN. THOSE TRADITIONS THAT DO NOT VIOLATE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS THAT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, HE SAID.

..

MR LEE THEN TURNED TO TWO ASPECTS TO WHICH HE SAID THE AD GROUP DID NOT GIVE ATTENTION.

HOC

ADAPT THE FIRST WAS THE PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM THE FAILURE TO

EFFECTIVE IN THE CERTAIN PARTS OF THE ICCPR IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM CONTEXT OF A DOMESTIC LAW.

OUT DEPRIVED

SPELL SHOULD

COULD BE

THE

RXACT OF HIS

THE BILL HE MAINTAINED THAT

UNDER

PERSON WHICH A CIRCUMSTANCES LIBERTY, JUST AS IN THE BILLS OF RIGHTS OF MONTSERRAT AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.

THE

SECOND MATTER

IMPLEMENTATION

OF

CULTURAL

THE RIGHTS ICESCR WHICH

ΤΟ THE RELATED

SOCIAL ECONOMIC, ON

AND INTERNATIONAL COVENANT (ICKSCR). HE BELIEVED THAT SOME OF THE RIGHTS IN THE WERE ALREADY CONTAINED IN THE BASIC LAW SHOULD ALSO BE INCLUDED IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS.

LEE

CALLED

SOME

COMMON

WHAT WENT MR

ON

DISPEL

HE TO MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF A BILL OF RIGHTS.

FIRST OF ALL, HE SAID, THE BILL WAS NOT SOME NOVEL DEVICE CONFLICTED WITH THE JOINT DECLARATION OR THE BASIC LAW.

THAT

/"ON THE