BOWER, COTTON
& BOWER.
SOLICITORS.
CHRISTOPHER WALTER BOWER.
NORMAN STANLEY WAGSTAFF. HUGH MONTGOMERY CAMPBELL. TREVOR MARTIN ALDRIDGE.
JOHN MICHAEL ARTHUR TALBOT.
Dear Sir,
TELEPHONE: O1 242 6341
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4, BREAM'S BUILDINGS,
CHANCERY LANE,
LONDON, E.C.4.
20th September, 1967.
re: Eric Blackburn, Esq.
For the Attention of Mr. H.W.Gaminara
We refer to our telephone conversation with Mr. Gaminara of today. We confirm that we are acting for Mr. Eric Blackburn, a Civil Servant, and Superintendent of Police and Justice of the Peace for Hong Kong, where he is presently stationed.
Our client's wife resides in England.
On the 25th August, 1966 Mr. Justice Orr made two Orders with regard to Michael Elliott Blackburn, a child of the marriage ordering that the child remain in the interim custody of Mr. Blackburn, and that Mr. Blackburn be at liberty to remove the child from the jurisdiction of this Court to Hong Kong.
Accordingly after this our client took Michael back with him to Hong Kong where the child lived with him until, in July of this year, it was arranged between Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn that Michael came to England to stay with his Mother during his school holidays.
This was on the express understanding and written undertaking of Mrs. Blackburn that the child should be returned at the end of the holidays.
Notwithstanding this, she did not return Michael and has since refused to do so, through her Solicitors, indicating that her reason for this was that the situation in Hong Kong is such that it is unsafe for a child to be there.
Our client denies that the situation is unsafe.
We are applying to the Vacation Judge tomorrow for an Order to enforce the return of the child and Counsel has advised that it would assist, if we could have a letter from your department stating that there is no reason why the child should not for reasons of safety in the colony be returned to his father at
The Secretary,
Commonwealth Office.
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