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c)

To summarise this section on the working methods of the

Inquiry:

i)

ii)

The Commissioner has failed to confine it to relevant

matters and there is little or no concern for relevance

or expedition so that a great deal of irrelevant matters

have been canvassed at great expense in time and cost;

there has been a failure to differentiate between

enquiries outside the hearings, (at which all matters

might be canvassed and the irrelevant discarded) and

the presentation of evidence at the hearings;

iii)

sensational allegations irrelevant to the Inquiry are

being explored which has done (e. g. McDaid) and

will do needless damage to the reputations of the

persons concerned;

iv)

there is an unreasonable reluctance to consider

sensitive matters in private session;

v)

there appears to be in the approach of the counsel

to the Commission of Inquiry a suggestion of bias.

Effect of continued Public Hearings on Police Morale:

Yang J. has indicated on various occasions that he is not

(yet) satisfied that the allegations of homosexuality against the

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