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R D Clift Esq
Hong Kong and General Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, SW1
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BLAKER v INGRAMS AND OTHERS
4th March 1982
HKK 380/2
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Thank you for your two letters dated respectively the 24th and 25th February with enclosures as therein mentioned.
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I had no need to deal with the question asked by the solicitors for Private Eye because when I telephoned Mr Peter Carter Ruck this afternoon, I was told that the action was settled this morning. statement was read in open Court to the effect that the action had been
I settled on grounds which had been accepted by the plaintiff. understand that Mr Blaker has been paid a substantial sum in settlement of his claim and all his costs. My only regret is that the Crown's
costs were not also borne by the magazine.
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I am copying this letter to Roscoe in the Law Officers Department
so that the Attorney General shall be aware of the happy outcome of
this matter,
evey, Shan Shill
J B BAILEY