TNAG-1731-FCO40-2444-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 276

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a. To ensure that the Government is able to

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rely on the doctrine of governmental margin of appreciation and actual implementation of the law; and

To provide that the only method to

challenge the findings of the Board of Review in court shall be by way of

judicial review.

These suggestions were made because I had understood that the Administration had been apprehensive that if my proposal were to be adopted:

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The court might apply a strict interpretation

to Article 19 without giving the Government any margin of appreciation in the interpret- ation of the law; and

That if the decision of the Board of Review

was to be challenged in court, unless the remedy is by way of judicial review only, the court might not follow the precedence in the European Commission of Human Rights applicable to Article 19.

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