TNAG-2104-FCO40-2997-Legal-matters-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-legal-study-visits-1990 — Page 48

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for Rakela

Major.

Royal Institute of Public Administration

Improving Public Service

International Services

Director: Jennifer A. Barnes

RIPA

Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1 4NS Telephone: 01-935 0496

Cables: PUBADMIN London Telex: 262433 Ref. No. 1983

Fax: 01-487 7746

From 6th May 1990 the telephone

number will be 071-935 0496 and the fax 071-487 7746

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VIA FAX

Memorandum

To:

Denis Chang QC

Anthony Dicks QC

Simon Ip

Martin Lee QC

Date: 25 May 1990

From: Brian Wrobel

HKC012/5

AUCE

-5 JUN 1990

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on Taken

Teleletter out.

Po 416

1. People in Hongkong must get supremely fed up with visitors from Britain asking for help on their self- important itineraries, but I hope that it is not too much of an imposition to ask if you have room for one more. Please excuse this coming in the form of a single memorandum, but I have no secretarial help and thought it better to get it on the machine quickly.

2. I hope to travel to Hongkong and China again shortly. The purpose of my trip to Beijing will be to discuss legal questions and also the relationship of law to the process of administration. At present, I hold a position with the Royal Institute of Public Administration. The Institute was founded in 1922, and is a non-political body whose objectives are to advance the study of public administration and to promote the exchange of information and ideas. From the early 1950's, the Institute has come into increasing contact with overseas countries and has provided a variety of services to governments and to international agencies, particularly in the assessment of training needs for government departments and the establishment of National Institutes of Public Administration. I am interested to know if its experience might be relevant to some in Hongkong and China over the next few years.

3. I saw in the Beijing Review of 14-20 May 1990 that at the recent Beijing Conference on Law for World Peace and Development, the subject of Human Rights was on the agenda. Do any of you know how in general that conference went, and

Director-General: David Falcon

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