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The British attitude - (para 28)

28. Proposals encourage officers to stay

Hong Kong's policy! - (para 29)

Permanent Resident of Hong Kong - (paras 30-34)

31. Residence of 7 years

BDTC(HK), intention to assume residence

32.

33.

AECS position

34.

What do other countries do?

Rebuttal of arguments made to defend the current policy - (paras 35-41)

35. We concede conversion to local terms

36.

37.

38.

39.

40.

41.

42.

43.

44.

45.

46.

No "right" to renewal irrelevant if illegal grounds used

Lost promotions vs. lost jobs

Transfer to P and P terms illusory to most

The language issue

Attack on the minority for failure to integrate

High proportion of foreigners - 1.2%!

Court Action - (paras 42-49)

All our advice says policy illegal

Court action inevitable?

Litigation costly to AECS and taxpayers

Government avoiding political responsibility?

Government should make its advice public

47. Wrongful dismissal actions could cost taxpayers millions

AECS willing to forgo damages if policy revised before action Court defence of racial policy to be avoided

48.

49.

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Other related issues - (paras 50-53)

50.

Localisation of the police

51.

Localisation of the Judiciary

52.

Short term agreements

53.

55.

"Final" and "no-promotion" agreements

A possible plan for the future - (paras 54-55)

A plan based on economic, rather than ethnic, principles

New plan should prevent abuse

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