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matters which BBMB considered confidential, irrelevant or
both. Counsel for Osman complained during the proceedings
that the documents available were an edited selection.
Counsel for the Government and the magistrate had, and
expressed, sympathy with this complaint. BBMB remained
unco-operative. The difficulty was resolved by the
Attorney-General of Hong Kong obtaining on 4 November, 1986
an order from the High Court of Malaya for the production
and inspection of a wide range of BBMB documents. The form
of the order is so wide that it could be described as an
order for general discovery. The rights to production and
inspection were exercised by. Clifford Howard Allison, who
was a member of the Attorney-General's chambers. He had
produced to him 5439 documents and files. They are listed
and described at pages 44 to 260 of exhibit "AK/1" to Anad
Krishnam's affirmation, dated 24 October 1990. Mr. Allison
selected from the documents produced documents additional
to those already before the magistrate, which he considered
material to the case. The good faith of Mr. Allison's
selection was expressly not impugned before us. The
substantial further selection was served upon Osman's
advisers on 16 December, 1986.
Osman's advisers were anxious to see all of the
documents which Mr. Allison had examined in November, 1986
for themselves. They engaged in correspondence in the
autumn of 1988 with the Attorney-General's chambers who had
not got the documents and who sensibly suggested on 28
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