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"confidentiality". Having finally obtained the 1990 Order, I now find that 64%
of the documents are now missing.
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The case is complex. It involved are serious. The charges against me numerous transactions and thousands of documents spanning a period of
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years. The Crown's case is built upon these documents: together to form the basis of the allegations I have to face. My ability t answer the allegations similarly rests upon documents, but not necessarily th ones which the Crown have, in the exercise of its own discretion, selected of my behalf. That discretion has been unsatisfactorily exercised. It cannot be
to decide substitute for the right which I and my lawyers must enjoy,
is not relevant to my defence. I can not be expected t
to the reasons the details as recall up to 13 years after the events, decisions, who participated, who advised and who consented, without access. the papers. My ability to inspect those documents, gained after a hard-w in the 1990 Order, has been render dispute with BBMB, and now embodied
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important a slice of futile by the disappearance of documents revealed to the Crown. I can not properly be expected to defend a criminal proceedings in Hong Kong and for these, as well as the other reasc in earlier Affirmations, it would be unjust a to which I have adverted
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oppressive to return me to Hong Kong for that purpose.
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AFFIRMED by the said LORRAIN
ESME OSMAN at II.M. Prison, Brixton,
27TH
this day of October 1990.
Before me,
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