Lord Chancellor's Office,
House of Lords,
London, S.W.1.
27th February 1970
As soon as your letter of 23rd February reached the Lord Chancellor's Office we looked into the questions that you raised and, as it was clear that any answers that were given to you should be conveyed officially through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, I sent the answers to that Office as soon as possible, and I have this morning heard that they are to be cabled to the Attorney General in Hong Kong with the request that they be communicated to you. No doubt, they will reach you quickest in this way.
It would not, of course, be right for the Lord Chancellor or his office to be quoted in court in this context and I have accordingly asked that, if any use is made of the information given in our answers, it should not be attributed to the Lord Chancellor or to his Office.
M. H. Jackson,Lipkin, Esq., 1103, Prince's Buildings, des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong.
H. BOGGIS-ROLFE