LegCo Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services

Meeting on
Tuesday, 16 January 2001 at 4:30 pm
in Conference Room A of the Legislative Council Building

A G E N D A

I.Confirmation of minutes of previous meeting

LC Paper No. CB(2) 657/00-01 -Minutes of meeting on 28 November 2000 (issued)

II.Information papers issued since last meeting

LC Paper No. CB(2)561/00-01 -Replies from the Administration on issues relating to appointment of a Judge of the Court of Final Appeal and legal aid statistics

III.Items for discussion at the next meeting
(4:30 pm -4:40 pm)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(01) -List of issues to be considered (attached)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(02) -List of follow-up actions (attached)

*IV."Public interest" consideration in prosecution policy
(4:40 pm -5:45 pm)

LC Paper No. CB(2)522/00-01(03) -Paper prepared by the Secretariat on Prosecution policy and guidelines on the "public interest test" in some common law jurisdictions (issued for the Panel meeting on 19 December 2000)

LC Paper No. CB(2)563/00-01(01) -An article on prosecution policy written by the Director of Public Prosecutions and published in the press on 19 December 2000 (issued on 21 December 2000)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(03) -Paper prepared by the Administration (attached)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(04) -Paper prepared by the Secretariat on Prosecution decisions in some previous cases (attached)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(05) -A letter dated 20 December 2000 from Mr Eric T M CHEUNG enclosing correspondence between himself and the Director of Public Prosecutions concerning prosecution policy vis-a-vis unauthorized assembly (English only) (attached)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(06) -An article written by Mr Eric T M CHEUNG and published in the press on 4 January 2001 (attached) A booklet on Prosecution Policy published by the Department of Justice (attached)

V.Marital rape under section 118 of Crimes Ordinance
(5:45 pm -6:30 pm)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(07) - Paper prepared by the Administration on "Consultation on marital rape and related sexual offences" (attached)

LC Paper No. CB(2)656/00-01(08) -Letter dated 22 December 2000 from the Law Society to the Administration (English only) (attached)

VI.Any other business


* All other Members of LegCo are invited to attend the meeting for discussion of item IV

Legislative Council Secretariat
11 January 2001