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Date:
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Reporter:
5.12.90
11.45 a.m.
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12.02 p.m.
Mr Hamilton
after the February hearing in the European ourt and Mr
Nicholls seems confident that neither the English court or the
European court are going to take Mr Osman very seriously, and
in three months' time we will know whether he is right or not.
It has always been the Crown's stance that if Mr Osman comes
back, the District Court proceedings would
not go on. This
was reiterated as recently as 21st November 1990, by leading
counsel for the Attorney General in the District Court and indeed, the learned Judge in giving his ruling yesterday
underlined that, having heard what Mr Corrigan has said, and
I accept no doubt that if Mr Osman comes back and in view of
what the Crown has already said in prosecution, that may apply
to the District Court.
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case is that he is trying to ride
is trying to ride two horses at once. H
is saying on the one hand that the interest of the Englis courts is rapidly running out and there is light at the of the tunnel, but on the other hand he is saying not interfere with the District Court trial or any appeal c
that trial",
to consider wha does surely then have is going to happen to Mr Osman and Dr Rais while all that : going on? Perhaps that is another part of the public intere: which the Court needs to put on the scale.
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But all this
in detail
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unnecessary;
You cannot ju
submission is
2 matter of simple fairness.
a simple matter, consider Mr Osman, Mr Tan has some rights in
rights in the matter
as solution goes
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we respectfully suggest that Court can to protect those rights and we respectfully sugg
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is the that is
correct solution, for a
return date in
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and Nicholls,
Thank you. Forgive me, I assu
lister
that
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yesterday I had understood the matter clearly when
order in
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