XN000022-1994-02-02 — Page 34

17

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1994

MRS

OF

CONDUCT IP SAID FOR COMPLAINTS INVOLVING PROFESSIONAL

REFER THE DOCTORS OR DENTISTS, THE CONSUMER COUNCIL WOULD NORMALLY COMPLAINT TO THE RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE MEDICAL COUNCIL AND THE DENTAL COUNCIL.

FOR

CONDUCT

CASES NOT INVOLVING COMPLAINTS ABOUT PROFESSIONAL BUT ON WHICH EXPERT OPINION IS REQUIRED, THE COUNCIL WOULD CONSULT THE DENTAL RELEVANT BODIES SUCH AS THE HONG KONG MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE ASSOCIATION AND OTHER CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINAL ASSOCIATIONS, SHE SAID.

GENERALLY SPEAKING, MRS IP SAID, IN HANDLING THESE COMPLAINTS, PROVIDE THE COUNCIL WOULD FIRST REQUEST THE PARTY UNDER COMPLAINT TO AN EXPLANATION.

"IF IN THE LIGHT OF THE EXPLANATION THE CONSUMER COUNCIL

THE THE COMPLAINT TO BE JUSTIFIED, CONSIDERS

WOULD TAKE COUNCIL FOLLOW-UP ACTION ON BEHALF OF THE COMPLAINANT WITH A VIEW TO SECURING APPROPRIATE REMEDIES," SHE SAID.

INVOLVING

COMPLAINTS THE COUNCIL HAD RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 158 THESE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THE PAST THREE YEARS. IT HAD DEALT WITH ITS ALL THOSE COMPLAINTS (INCLUDING REFERRAL CASES) WHICH FELL WITHIN PURVIEW, SHE ADDED.

0

—

AG EXPLAINS BEST WAYS TO PROMOTE USE OF CHINESE IN LAW

THE

BY

PROMOTE THE ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS THAT THE BEST WAY IT CAN GREATER USE OF CHINESE IN THE TEACHING AND PRACTICE OF LAW IS COMPLETING ITS BILINGUAL LAWS PROGRAMME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SUPPORTING

BY STUDIES

TWO WORKING PARTIES ESTABLISHED

JUDICIARY.

AND BY BY THE

STATED BY THE THIS WAS

ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON JEREMY MATHEWS, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IP,

MR

THE

HON WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE IN A

SIMON NOT ONLY MATHEWS SAID THOSE WORKING PARTIES WERE CONSIDERING PROMOTION OF BILINGUALISM IN THE COURTS BUT ALSO THE PROMOTION OF GREATER USE OF CHINESE IN THE LAW GENERALLY.

HE SAID BOTH THE BILINGUAL LAWS PROGRAMME AND THE THE WORKING PARTIES WOULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT RAMIFICATIONS.

THE

STUDIES OF

WILL

IN THE

"AS MORE AND MORE OF OUR LEGISLATION BECOMES BILINGUAL,

CHINESE EQUIVALENTS OF AUTHENTIC

ENGLISH LEGAL EXPRESSIONS EMERGE, AND THIS WILL FACILITATE THE GREATER USE OF CHINESE TEACHING AND PRACTICE OF LAW," MR MATHEWS SAID.

14

'SIMILARLY, THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TWO WORKING PARTIES

THOSE WHO LIKELY

HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS FOR TO PRACTISE LAW," HE SAID.

ARE

TEACH

AND

0

/18