It cannot undermine its own democratic principles and abridge the freedom of speech of Tibetans on its soil. Nor can it afford to alienate its largest trading partner, a neighbor and an emerging global superpower, which is known to be prickly over any presumed slights to its sovereignty over Tibet.

In 2001, to address the difficulties that maintenance payees encountered in collecting and enforcing such payments, we introduced further amendments to relax the circumstances in which Attachment of Income Orders could be made. Among other things, those changes empowered the courts to dispense with or relax any procedure or to abridge any time limit specified in the rules under certain circumstances.