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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1991

COURT OF FINAL APPEAL SHOULD BE SET UP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: CS

VERY IMPORTANT COURT OF FINAL SIR DAVID

THE ADMINISTRATION BELIEVES THAT CERTAINTY IS THAT AND

WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND TRY TO SET UP THE

SECRETARY, THE CHIEF APPEAL AS SOON AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, FORD, SAID THIS (WEDNESDAY) EVENING.

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DEBATE ON A APPEAL, SIR DAVID SAID: "IT'S VERY CLEAR MORE MOTION ON THE COURT OF FINAL THAT THE LARGE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGCO WOULD LIKE TO SEE

COURT OF FINAL THE NUMBER OF JUDGES TO FORM THE IN FLEXIBILITY APPEAL.

REAL OPTION TO RE- "BUT WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THAT 18 A

IS NOT AN NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN MADE IN THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP, THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THAT OPTION AND CANNOT BE RE-NEGOTIATED,

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HE SAID.

ARE TO GO AHEAD AND "SO THE REAL OPTIONS WHICH FACE US NOW IMPLEMENT THE AGREEMENT WHICH HAD BEEN MADE IN THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP AND TO ESTABLISH THE COURT OF FINAL APPEAL AHEAD OF 1997, OR TO FACE THE PROSPECT OF UNCERTAINTY WITH NO COURT SET UP AHEAD OF ADDED.

1997,"

HE

ALL THE MEMBERS

MONTHS AHEAD; "WE WILL BE WORKING ON THE LEGISLATION IN THE THERE ARE STILL MANY DETAILS TO BE WORKED OUT AND WE HOPE THAT WE WILL GIVE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ANOTHER CHANCE TO CONSIDER ARGUMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN PUT. IN THE MEANTIME, WE HOPE THAT

ADMINISTRATION WILL CONSIDER VERY CAREFULLY THE POINTS THAT THE MADE TODAY," SIR DAVID SAID.

HAS

DUCHESS OF KENT VISITS CHESHIRE HOME

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THE DUCHESS OF KENT STARTED HER SERIES OF ACTIVITIES IN KONG THIS AFTERNOON (WEDNESDAY) WITH A VISIT TO THE CHESHIRE HOME SHA TIN.

BY DR

PETER LEE, THE CHAIRMAN

HONG IN

OF THE HOSPITAL ACCOMPANIED GOVERNING COMMITTEE OF THE CHESHIRE HOME (SHA TIN), THE DUCHESS TOURED

HOME INCLUDING THE CONVALESCENT WARDS, VARIOUS FACILITIES OF THE

DEPARTMENT, THE PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

SEVERELY DISABLED WARD, AND THE CHALETS.

THE

THE

THE

PROVIDED

BY

VIEWED DUCHESS

THE

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MINI-EXHIBITION

DEPICTING

HOME AND A

DISPLAY

HANDICRAFT OF

SERVICES MADE BY THE

RESIDENTS.

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