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absence of any provision. requiring a detanice to be informed of the reasons! for his detention. We know you do this in' practice, Sylan present advised) other
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would seem desirable to
follow suit. Domy disposing of as of
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which have been lifted and those which have
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been, or will be, incorporated in the permanent
are glad you
have it in mind to take law. One thing I would ask, and that is that
perhaps your Law Officers might have a look
at the more contentious regulations (e.g. those
hower of detention and the
relating to the Committee of Review and those
conferring the power of detention), to see if
they cannot be modified (without necessarily
being weakened) to take account of some of the
criticisms (which we realise are based purely
on principle) levelled at them by such bodies.
we aques as the Hong Kong Bar Association. I do not
review
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Carried out suggest that this should be done now, but at
the time when it becomes possible to put the
regulations back on the shelf in readiness for the next emergency!
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I am glad that you have mentioned the
Tunnel although naturally there have been a
number of developments since you wrote.
French intervention, no more benevolent
than you would expect it to be, may at least
serve the purpose of bringing matters to a head.
Apart from using your political arguments, among
others, to induce ECGD to have another look at
their terms (which Lord Shepherd did as you know
nearly a month ago) we are not making the running
here: the Board of Trade are. It is our under-
standing that the French are not decided what
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