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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1991

BORN IN ENGLAND IN 1945, MR JACKSON

AT LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY IN 1967.

OBTAINED HIS LAW DEGREE

A HE WAS ADMITTED AS

SOLICITOR OF AND THE SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN 1970 AND AS A BARRISTER SOLICITOR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA IN 1982.

MR JACKSON JOINED THE LEGAL JANUARY 1981. HE WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR

CROWN COUNSEL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL COUNSEL IN 1989.

AS CROWN DEPARTMENT

COUNSEL IN CROWN COUNSEL IN 1982, TO IN 1986,

PRINCIPAL AND TO

CROWN

LAW MR WHALEY, BORN IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA IN 1944, OBTAINED HIS

TOWN IN 1967. OF CAPE

HE WAS A PUBLIC DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY

то 1972, AND WAS FROM 1970

IN PROSECUTOR IN SALISBURY, RHODESIA,

BETWEEN PRIVATE PRACTICE AS AN ADVOCATE OF THE HIGH COURT OF RHODESIA 1972 AND 1983.

IN JUNE 1983, MR WHALEY JOINED THE LEGAL COUNSEL AND WAS PROMOTED TO SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL IN 1984.

DEPARTMENT

AS CROWN

SOUTHERNERS RETURN TO VIETNAM

* *

FOR THE FIRST TIME, A SPECIAL STOP WAS MADE IN SOUTH (THURSDAY) TODAY

BY THE

THE

FLIGHTS LATEST OF

REGULAR VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO GO HOME.

VIETNAM CARRYING

THIS WAS TO ALLOW 29 VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE TO DISEMBARK HO CHI MINH CITY.

IN

DEVELOPMENT,

THE

CO-ORDINATOR, REFUGEE

MR

CLINTON LEEKS, SAID THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME A GROUP OF SOUTHERNERS HAD

HONG KONG UNDER BY

WELCOMING THE

RETURNED PROGRAMME REFUGEES.

HOME

FROM

ORGANISED

THE UNITED

THE VOLUNTARY NATIONS HIGH

REPATRIATION

COMMISSIONER

FOR

A FEW INDIVIDUAL SOUTHERNERS HAVE PREVIOUSLY GONE BECAUSE OF THEIR SMALL NUMBERS, THEY HAVE RETURNED VIA HANOI REGULAR UNHCR FLIGHTS.

BACK ON

BUT

THE

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE NUMBERS HAVE BEEN LARGE ENOUGH FORM A GROUP FOR RETURN, AND THEREFORE TO ARRANGE A SEPARATE STOP HỌ CHI MINH CITY.

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IN

WERE

MR LEEKS SAID THIS INDICATED THAT THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE GETTING THE MESSAGE THAT THERE WAS NO FUTURE FOR NON-REFUGEES STUCK IN DETENTION CENTRES IN HONG KONG.

NOW "LIKE THE NORTH VIETNAMESE BEFORE THEM, SOUTHERNERS ARE REALISING THAT FOR THE GREAT MAJORITY WHO WILL BE SCREENED OUT AS NON- REFUGEES, HONG KONG IS NOT A SHORT CUT TO A NEW LIFE IN THE WEST.

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