TNAG-0305-FCO40-341-Use-of-Chinese-as-official-language-in-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 35

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

1st December 1971

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La Mr James Johnson (Kingston-upon-Hull, West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, under what circumstances the Chinese language is used in the law courts of Hong Kong.

NO. 83W

MR ANTHONY ROYLE

Court records are kept in English and legal argument is conducted in English but a litigant or witness whose language is Chinese my use Chinese in any court proceedings and the proceedings are interpreted for him.

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