21.   Meer, chairman of the Liberation History Foundation and a member of the law society, said he accepts the apology as adequate.

22.   The human rights group and the law society said the boys should have been released into the custody of a welfare official immediately after their arrest.

23.   At the time, the law society said it feared that Dunn might lose his job for freeing the three.

24.   The law society said it was launching its prosecution because the government had failed to charge former officials.