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Looking back

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Why you can trust SCMP

Vincent H. Ng of New York, in his letter headlined, 'Amend law' (South China Morning Post, May 6), has a point.

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Let us suppose that in 1985 a Hong Kong-born Chinese in the UK had been successful in getting the Privy Council to overturn a lower court judgment that he, and others like him, were not entitled to right of abode in Britain.

Would the Thatcher Government have accepted that ruling and suspended its immigration laws to let in a potential 3.5 million Hong Kong Chinese? Not the slightest hope.

Maybe the Bar Association has other ideas, but my guess is that the British Government would immediately have rushed through legislation to prevent the flood and that the rule of law would not have suffered one iota.

JOHN WALDEN Pokfulam

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