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HE ADDED THAT INVESTIGATION OF

ARCHABOLOGICAL SITES WAS

ANOTHER IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE AMO'S WORK AS THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE IN PREHISTORIC TIMES.

MR SO SAID EXCAVATION ON CHER LAP COMPLETED AND YIELDED A FASCINATING GLIMPSE HONG KONG,

IT ENRICHED

KOK HAD ALREADY BEEN OF LIFE IN PREHISTORIC

A RECONSTRUCTION OF ONE OF THE KILNS UNEARTHED ON THE ISLAND IS ON DISPLAY IN THE NEW PREMISES OF THE AMO IN NATHAN ROAD.

NEW MEMBERS APPOINTED TO LAW REFORM COMMISSION

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THREE NEW MEMBERS

A SENIOR ACADEMIC IN LAW COMMISSION.

A QUEEN'S COUNSEL, A BUSINESS

LEADER, AND

HAVE BEEN APPOINTED ΤΟ THE LAW REFORM

THEY ARE MR ANDREW LIAO. QC, MR ALASDAIR MORRISON AND PROFESSOR DEREK ROEBUCK.

MR LIAO IS A WIDELY RESPECTED ADVOCATE WITH A CONSIDERABLE BREADTH OF LEGAL EXPERIENCE.

HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION'S COPYRIGHT SINCE IT WAS SET UP IN DECEMBER 1987.

SUB-COMMITTEE

ON

MR MORRISON IS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG LAND PROPERTY CO LTD AND HAS LIVED IN HONG KONG FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS.

POSITIONS WITH THE JARDINE MATHESON GROUP OF COMPANIES IN THE PHILIPPINES, AUSTRALIA AND HONG KONG.

HE HAS HELD MANAGEMENT

AT THE

PROFESSOR ROEBUCK IS THE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW CITY POLYTECHNIC OF HONG KONG AND IS AN ADMITTED SOLICITOR IN HONG KONG AND IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

PROFESSOR ROEBUCK HAS HELD ACADEMIC POSTS IN NEW ZEALAND AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND WAS HEAD OF RESEARCH FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FROM 1979 TO 1982.

HE WRITES EXTENSIVELY ON LEGAL MATTERS.

IN ADDITION TO THE APPOINTMENT OF THE THREE NEW MEMBERS, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR JEREMY MATHEWS, WHO IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION, ALSO ANNOUNCED THE RE-APPOINTMENT OF MR JUSTICE MORTIMER AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION AND SAID HE WAS PLEASED THAT HE HAD AGREED TO CONTINUE WITH THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION.

MR LIAO, MR MORRISON AND PROFESSOR ROEBUCK REPLACE MR SIMON IP, DR FRANK CHAO AND MISS MARIA TAM, WHO ARE RETIRING AFTER HAVING SERVED ON THE COMMISSION BETWEEN THREE AND SIX YEARS.

/MR MATHEWS