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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer on.
1st December 1971
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Hong Kong
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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.
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 may use Chinese in any court
proceedings and the proceedings are interpreted for him.
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