CONFIDENTIAL
Mr
Fi.
HKD 384
Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
59
ECEN
5 JUL 1991
London SWIA 2AH
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Your ref: L91/JZ
Jonathan Ziegel Esq
Treasury Solicitor "s Department
Queen Anne' S Chambers
28 Broadway
London SW1H 9JS
2 July 1991
Dear Jonathan
LORRAIN OSMAN
1.
DISCOVERY OF DOCUMENTS
Thank you for your letter which I received yesterday. The four telegrams enclosed with Clifford Chance's letter of 25 June 1991 are contained on Foreign Office files. They were amongst the documents considered for possible discovery but judged to be irrelevant.
2.
Osman's fourth application for habeas corpus was accompanied by a notice of motion for discovery dated 10 April 1990. Schedule II to that motion listed categories of document as follows:
"1.
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3.
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The documents, correspondence, telexes, memos etc.
(or copies thereof) passing between (1) the Hong Kong Government either directly or through the Attorney General's Chambers or otherwise, (2) the United Kingdom High Commissioner in Malaysia and/or (3) the Malaysian Government dealing with the investigation, prosecution and/or the extradition of Mr. Osman.
etc.
The documents, correspondence, telexes, memos passing between (1) the United Kingdom Government and (2) the Hong Kong Government either directly or through the Attorney General's Chambers and (3) the Malaysian Government dealing with the investigation, prosecution and/or the extradition of Mr. Osman.
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In preparing to oppose the application for discovery, it was necessary to decide which of the many documents concerning the Bank Bumiputra affair could be described as "dealing with the investigation, prosecution and/or the extradition of Mr Osman"
documents considered relevant were listed in the Schedule to the P.I.I. certificate signed by Francis Maude on 12 June 1990.
The
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