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On
On (i) the speaker did not seem to be worried by the fact
that the particular exercise would not be completed before
1997.
the contrary he assured the audience that there
would not be too many changes. He specified the areas in
which adaptations were required as (i) constitutional
documents; (ii) laws relating to defence and foreign
affairs; (iii) laws having colonial colour; (iv) laws
giving special
special privilege to British people; and (v) laws
touching on the relationship between HK and the UK. (His
views were in the same vein as those published in 1991 in a
local magazine by a Mr Wang Yung who was previously a researcher at NCNA and now a judge in Shenzhen. Perhaps
the Chinese view of the adaptation exercise is rather
"conceptual", and may be quite different from the approach
we are taking.)
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The rest of
3.
his talk touched on matters such as
the nature of the BL, whether it could be called the
mini-constitution etc., which were quite theoretical and I would not trouble you with them.
4.
The talk was held in courti of the Supreme Court.
Yang C.J. was there at the beginning to greet and took
photographs with the organisors, but he did not stay for
the talk. Professor Byron Weng of the Chinese University
presided over the talk. There were about 20 listeners.
Among them were Albert Chen, Senior Lecturer at HK
University and Ong Yew Kim, a China Consultant at Dunstan
Styles & Co who writes quite frequently on Chinese
Commercial
The others were mostly students
reporters.
Law.
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