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MARICULTURISTS FROM OTHER CULTURE ZONES BUY THE FEED FROM THE ABERDEEN PLANT.

207.

ARE ALSO WELCOME TO

ABERDEEN MARINE AND LEAST

THEY SHOULD BOOK IN PERSON AT ROOM FISHERIES SUB-OFFICE OR BY TELEPHONING 873 8344 OR 873 8346, AT ONE WORKING DAY IN ADVANCE. BOOKING IS RESTRICTED TO MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYS, FROM 9 AM TO 3 PM.

FURTHER ENQUIRIES CAN BE MADE OF THE ABERDEEN FISHERIES SUB-OFFICE ON THE TWO TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND ALSO ON 679 9116.

COMMISSION PUBLISHES REPORT ON INCITEMENT, CONSPIRACY AND ATTEMPT

THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION TODAY (THURSDAY) PUBLISHED ITS REPORT ON THE PRELIMINARY OFFENCES OF ATTEMPT.

FINAL

INCITEMENT,

CONSPIRACY AND

THE REPORT IS THE RESULT OF THE CODIFICATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW.

REFERENCE COMMISSION'S

ON

BY

OF THE

IT CONCENTRATES ON THE THREE OFFENCES WHICH ARE REFERRED TO LAWYERS AS "PRELIMINARY" IN THAT THEY PRECEDE THE COMMISSION COMPLETED OFFENCE.

SAID THAT THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION, MR STUART STOKER,

HONG KONG'S COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS WERE INTENDED TO BRING

BERN UP TO DATE WITH DEVELOPMENTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES WHICH HAD FOUND TO WORK WELL IN PRACTICE.

THE LAW

THE COMMISSION'S MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDE:

RELATION

THE

CONSPIRING STILL A DANGER TO CONTEXT RENDERS IT

THE DEFENCE OF IMPOSSIBILITY SHOULD BE REMOVED IN TO THE OFFENCES OF INCITEMENT, CONSPIRACY AND ATTEMPT. COMMISSION ARGUES THAT PERSONS INCITING A CRIME, OR ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT A CRIME ARE SOCIETY, EVEN THOUGH IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLETE THE CRIME.

THE

FACTUAL

THE COMMON LAW RULE THAT A PERSON CANNOT CONSPIRE WITH OR HER SPOUSE SHOULD BE PRESERVED. THIS RULE HAS THE MERIT OF MAINTAINING MARRIAGE BY AVOIDING INTERFERENCE RELATIONSHIP OF HUSBAND AND WIFE.

HIS

THE COMMISSION CONSIDERS THE STABILITY OF WITH THE CONFIDENTIAL

LAW EXEMPTIONS CRIMINAL SHOULD

FOR THE OFFENCE OF CONSPIRACY, THE COMMON WHERE THE OTHER PARTY IS A PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF RESPONSIBILITY OR IS THE INTENDED VICTIM OF A CRIME BE RETAINED. GIVEN THAT A CONSPIRACY ALWAYS LEAST TWO CRIMINAL PARTIES, IT DOES NOT SEEM ONE PARTY SHOULD BE HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE WHEREAS THE OTHER HE IS PARTY IS NOT LIABLE BECAUSE OF YOUNG AGE OR BECAUSE THE INTENDED VICTIM.

INVOLVES AT LOGICAL THAT

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