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The Emergency Regulations (Repeal) Order 1995, the Emergency (Deportation and Detention) (Forms) (Repeal) Order 1995, the Emergency (Deportation and Detention) (Advisory Tribunal) (Repeal) Rules 1995, the Appointment of Places of Detention (Consolidation) (Repeal) Notice 1995, the Emergency (Requisition) (Repeal) Order 1995 and the Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 1995 are gazetted today.

They will be tabled in the Legislative Council next Wednesday (June 28).

End/Friday, June 23, 1995

Legal services consultation period extended

The Attorney General has decided to extend the consultation period for the Consultation Paper on Legal Services for one month till the end of July because the Law Society and the Bar Association have requested more time for their members to study the issues before they submit their comments, the Solicitor General, Mr Daniel Fung, QC, said today (Friday).

Speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club Hong Kong Northeast, Mr Fung and this would also enable the Clovernment to solicit as many responses as possible from members of the community.

The said since the consultation paper was introduced at the end of March, the initial reaction had been very positive. However, he said comments to date, noted in the media or obtained through the Government's community links, had tended to focus on the following four main areas;

the proposed abolition of scale fees in conveyancing:

the proposal to prohibit joint representation in respect of all conveyancing transactions;

the proposal to allow solleltors to acquire extendød rights of audience; and

the proposed Introduction of contingency fees,

Mr Fung called on members of the public to give their views on the other provisional recommendations contained in the consultation paper as the approach adopted throughout the document was to consider legal services from the angle of the consumer - the man and woman in the street who used and paid for the legal services.