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CONFIDENTIAL
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
LAW OFFICERS' DEPARTMENT,
ROYAL Courts of JusTICE,
LONDON, W.C.2.
15 June 1981
Dear John Точил
BLAKER v INGRAMS AND OTHERS
We spoke about this last week.
As I am a
I now enclose all the material I have on this case. little pressed at the moment, I hope you will not mind if I send them on a "Counsel has herewith his papers" basis.
2. You will observe that Mr Blaker's solicitors have asked if the Attorney General would be willing to "permit the disclosure" of a class of documents which consists of material passing between Mr Blaker, in his capacity as Minister of State at the FCO, and the Government of Hong Kong, in connection with the death of one Inspector John MacLennan of the Royal Hong Kong Police.
3. I note that the solicitors have been advised by Counsel (a) that Pll attaches to these documents as a class but (b) to ask us whether the Attorney General would allow them to be disclosed. But it seems to me that (b) cannot be done if (a) is true.
4.
Incidentally, the lawyer at Oswald Hickson, Collier & Co, who is dealing with this case agrees with me that the words "would not amount", in the eleventh line of Mr Carter Ruck's letter of 24 April to his client, should read "would amount".
5. I should welcome your views before I put the papers to the Attorney General.
Yours sincerely
JR Mallinson
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CONFIDENTIAL
JR Mallinson