HKB 371/2
MR MILLINGTON
SIR A WATTS, LEGAL ADVISER
From: A J Seaton
Far Eastern Department K267 270 2953
Date: 26 April 1989
CC: Mr Wood, HKD
MUTUAL JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AGREEMENT WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
1. I have been in touch with the Lord Chancellor's Department about the proposed Sino-British Mutual Judicial Assistance Agreement. Michael Farmer has now taken over responsibility within the Lord Chancellor's Department for producing a draft agreement. He has just started and has not yet immersed himself in the details of the project, but hopes to be able to produce a draft for discussion by the end of July. He will be in touch if he needs any advice from us.
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It is good that work on this is now getting going again. Mr Farmer said that this agreement was seen within the Lord Chancellor's Department as a priority task for 1989/90.
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