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MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1992

OF

WHERE LEGISLATION WAS HELD TO HAVE BEEN REPEALED

ADVISED

ON THE RIGHTS THE COMMITTEE LEGISLATION, OR FOR GOVERNMENT PRACTICE.

BY THE BILL

I

FOR IMPLICATIONS

OTHER

MR MATHEWS ALSO MENTIONED TWO LEGAL INITIATIVES FOR THIS YEAR.

HAD MR MATHEWS SAID

LAW REFORM THE

COMMISSION FIRSTLY,

REMOVE RECENTLY PUBLISHED ITS REPORT ON "ILLEGITIMACY" WHICH AIMED TO

DISADVANTAGES WHICH AT PRESENT AS FAR AS WAS PRACTICABLE THE LEGAL ATTACH TO AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.

LAW

AND UNFAIR WAS DISCRIMINATORY PRESENT NOTING THAT THE

NOT PERSONALLY THE BECAUSE

TARGET

DISCRIMINATION WAS OF THE

OF THE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MISCONDUCT, MR MATHEWS SAID THE ENACTMENT BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE SERVED TO REINFORCE THE ARGUMENTS FOR

OF CLEARLY OUT WAS

LINE WITH IN AN AREA OF THE LAW WHICH THINKING,

IMPLEMENTING

HE HOPED A BILL COMMISSION'S REPORT COULD BE INTRODUCED LATER IN THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

REFORM MODERN

THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN TO THE LEGISLATIVE

THE COUNCIL

GENERAL ANTICIPATED

PROGRESS

SECONDLY, THE ATTORNEY

IN THE

AREA OF FOREIGN LAW FIRMS AND FOREIGN LAWYERS WORKING IN HONG KONG.

HE SAID THE LAW SOCIETY OF HONG KONG HAD RECENTLY PRODUCED TWO THE REGULATION OF REPORTS WITH ONE CONTAINING OUTLINE PROPOSALS FOR FOREIGN LAWYERS AND FOREIGN LAW FIRMS AND THE OTHER A PROPOSED SCHEME

LAWYERS QUALIFIED FOR THE ADMISSION OF NON-HONG KONG SOLICITORS.

BOTH REPORTS

REPRESENTED

AS HONG

KONG

AN

IMAGINATIVE CURRENTLY GIVING

AND

HE NOTED THAT FORWARD-LOOKING APPROACH AND THE ADMINISTRATION WAS DETAILED CONSIDERATION TO THESE PROPOSALS.

-

BROAD EDUCATION NEEDED FOR CHINESE TO VIEW WESTERN LAW

BROAD

EDUCATION

WAS ONE WAY

CULTURES

-

BRIDGE THE

ESPECIALLY

OF HELPING TO DEEPROOTED GAP BETWEEN THE WESTERN AND ORIENT IN THE WAY THE CHINESE MAN VIEWED WESTERN LAW, THE CHIEF JUSTICE, TI LIANG YANG, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

SIR

AT ADDRESSING THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 1992 LEGAL YEAR HELD

LAW SHOULD BE THE CITY HALL, SIR TI LIANG SAID: "THE ESSENCE OF OUR

MAY HAVE EXPLAINED AND MADE KNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC SO THAT THEY

AS JURY FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS RATIONAL APPRECIATION OF SUCH

AND SO TRIALS, THE BURDEN OF PROOF, THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE COURTS, ON."

A

LAW AND THE COURTS + "AND MORE CHINESE SHOULD BE USED IN THE FOR THE LAW SHOULD BE EXPRESSED IN A LANGUAGE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, HE SAID.

/EARLIER, THE