*TRANSFERRED FROM HKC370/11 ©*
CONFIDENTIAL
27 June 1991
HKC370/13
G Lester Esq
SEC (O) (C)
Ministry of Defence
Main Building Whitehall
London
BIED 47
Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
London SW1A 2AH
Telephone: 071-
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Dear Cruy
HONG KONG: CROWN PROCEEDINGS ORDINANCE/CLAIMS AGAINST BRITISH FORCES
Please refer to my letter of 11 June which we discussed briefly on the telephone.
1.
2.
I have now received our Legal Advisers' views on Hong Kong's draft legislation (Miss Brooks minute to me of 26 June attached). I should be grateful if you could feed these into your own Legal Advisers and let me have your and their views. Miss Brooks specifically asks for MOD views in paragraphs 1a), 4 and 8 of her minute.
3.
A separate related issue has arisen: I should be grateful if you could advise me on the present situation concerning criminal jurisdiction over the British Forces in Hong Kong. If a British soldier committed a crime in Hong Kong would he be dealt with in Hong Kong courts or by HM Forces?
Yous ever Pamela
P A Major (Ms)
Hong Kong Department
CC:
Miss Brooks, Legal Advisers
MUKAOI
CC
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