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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1992

MR STRACHAN ADDED THAT THESE POLICIES WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED.

IN

THE OF

PRESUMPTIONS SEEKS THE BILL ALSO

TO AMEND CERTAIN EXISTING ORDINANCE REGARDING EXISTENCE, MEMBERSHIP, AND MANAGEMENT SOCIETIES BY RESTRICTING THEIR APPLICATION TO UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES ONLY.

HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVED THIS WOULD BE THE BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE AND YET ENABLE WITH THEIR EFFECTIVE FIGHT AGAINST TRIADS.

THE BILL ALSO TRIAD-RELATED OFFENCES.

PROPOSES

CONSISTENT WITH THE POLICE TO CONTINUE

TO

UPDATE

FINES

FOR

VARIOUS

WERE SUGGESTIONS THERE SECRETARY SAID THE IMPRISONMENT PENALTIES OF SUCH OFFENCES SHOULD LIKEWISE TO ENSURE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO BE GOOD DETERRENTS.

THAT

THE BE REVIEWED

"WE SEE MERIT IN THIS AND WILL BE PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO

|| HE SAID. EFFECT AT THE COMMITTEE STAGE,

DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.

THIS

GOVT MOVING TOWARDS GREATER USE OF CHINESE IN COURTS

* * * *

SIR DAVID FORD,

MOVE TOWARDS GREATER USE OF IT IS THE GOVERNMENT POLICY TO CHINESE IN THE COURTS, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

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IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON JAMES K.S. TO, CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THIS WAS NOW IN PLACE THE LOWER COURTS, THAT IS, MAGISTRATES COURTS AND TRIBUNALS, AND

TO MAGISTATES CHIEF JUSTICE ENCOURAGED TRIALS IN CHINESE.

CHINESE-SPEAKING

THE

IN

THE

CONDUCT

THE

IN THE HIGHER COURTS, BECAUSE OF THE GREATER COMPLEXITY OF

BE THE LANGUAGE IN LEGAL LANGUAGE USED THERE, ENGLISH CONTINUED TO WHICH THE PROCEEDINGS WERE CONDUCTED.

HE SAID.

"INTERPRETATION IS PROVIDED IN ALL CASES WHEN

"

IT IS NEEDED,

WAS LANGUAGE

USED ΤΟ DIFFERENT

SIR DAVID SAID THE CHINESE EXTENTS IN COURTS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS.

MAGISTRATES WERE

ALMOST ALL THE TRIALS CONDUCTED

BY SPECIAL

CONDUCTED IN CHINESE.

THESE TRIALS WERE

FOR MINOR

SUCH OFFENCES

AS

LITTERING AND THEY FORMED A VERY LARGE PROPORTION OF ALL WITH BY THE COURTS.

AND

HAWKING CASES DEALT

/THE VAST