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PF Ricketts Esq
Hong Kong Department
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
London
SW1A 2AH
Dear Ricketts,
30th July 1993
RECIPROCAL RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS BETWEEN UK (AND OTHERS) AND HONG KONG AFTER 1997
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I am sorry not to have replied sooner to your letter of 4th June to David Gladwell about arrangements for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments between Hong Kong and other countries after 1997.
I cannot pretend to have got right to the bottom of the questions which you ask in your letter, but I put forward below some tentative answers which you might like to think about before September.
Taking your last question first, I should be more than happy to take part in the negotiations in September but unfortunately I will not be available until the week beginning 13th September.
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As to the other questions which you ask:
We would certainly want to ensure that UK and Hong Kong judgments should certainly be reciprocally enforceable after 1997. I am not sure however of the need for a new treaty for this purpose. As I understand it the Sino-British joint Declaration provides for all existing Hong Kong laws (with the exception of directly applicable Westminster imperial legislation) to continue in force in Hong Kong after 1997. The present reciprocal enforcement arrangements between the UK and Hong Kong rest simply upon legislation. On our side it is Part I of the Administration of Justice Act 1920 and on the Hong Kong side it is the Judgments (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance (cap.9). The same Hong Kong
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