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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1991

MAIN ISSUE TO COURT OF FINAL APPEAL

IS IMPROVEMENT TO FLEXIBILITY: CHIEF SECRETARY

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IS THAT THE THE MAIN ISSUE INVOLVING THE COURT OF FINAL APPEAL

IN FLEXIBILITY AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WANT TO SEE AN IMPROVEMENT

A WAY THAT'S WHAT WE'VE GOT TO SEE WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT CAN FIND

FORD, SAID TODAY FORWARD ON THAT, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID (SATURDAY).

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER OPENING THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND NOT HEALTH WEEK, SIR DAVID SAID: "CLEARLY, THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS

WE NOW SATISFIED WITH THE PROPOSAL WHICH HAS BEEN PUT FORWARD, AND

WHICH 19, HAVE TO CONSIDER HOW WE CAN MEET THEIR OTHER REQUIREMENT, AND I THINK IT'S EVERYBODY'S REQUIREMENT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE A COURT OF FINAL APPEAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE."

MIGHT PROCEED. WE "IT'S тоо EARLY TO SAY, I THINK, HOW WE

WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO FIND SOME COMPROMISE, SOME WAY FORWARD AND NOW

THIS SUBJECT, HB WILL BE THINKING OF HOW WE CAN MADE PROGRESS ON ADDED.

"WE WOULD LIKE IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT THE COURT HAVE TO BE IN OPERATION UNTIL LATER, NEARER 1997 AND SO THERE GREAT RUSH TO GET IT DONE.

DOESN'T IS NO

OF A "I DON'T THINK INCIDENTALLY, THAT WE ARE IN A SITUATION

HAVE SUGGESTED. THE PEOPLE SOME WHICH CRISIS, CONSTITUTIONAL

KNOWN, WE AS THE VIEWS THEIR HAS MADE COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE ADMINISTRATION WILL NOW TRY AND FIND A WAY. THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS INVOLVED IN THAT," SIR DAVID SAID.

FELT WITH THE POSITION IS

WHEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON REPORTS THAT SOME LEGCO MEMBERS THE PROPOSALS ON THE FINAL COURT OF APPEAL WAS IN CONFLICT JOINT DECLARATION, THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID: "WELL, OUR ALSO VERY CLEAR, THAT WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE PROPOSALS WHICH BEEN AGREED BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES, IS INCONSISTENT."

"NOW,

CLEARLY THERE ARE LEGAL ARGUMENTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. WE ARE QUITE CLEAR IT ISN'T HE ADDED.

HAVE

LAWYERS WITH INCONSISTENT,

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DAVID SAID

WHO

TURNING ΤΟ THE ISSUE OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS, SIR THERE WAS NO OTHER PRACTICAL SOLUTION OTHER THAN TO RETURN THOSE ARE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY.

"AND I THINK THERE IS GROWING UNDERSTANDING AROUND THE WORLD OF HE SAID. THIS SITUATION, AND I THINK THAT INCLUDES THE UNITED STATES,

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VERY "NOW, CLEARLY, THEY AS A MATTER OF POLICY, THEY ARE BEING

THINK THERE IS MORE CAREFUL HOW THEY EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS, BUT I UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFICULTY AND I THINK THAT WILL HELP US FIND

HE ADDED. SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM,

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