HKD 384/1
RECEIVE
03 MAR 1992
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24/2
Mr Burns
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PS/Lord, Caithness
FROM: P F Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 21 February 1992
LORRAIN OSMAN: HABEAS CORPUS NO 7
cc: Sir J Coles
Mr Anderson, Acting
Legal Adviser
Mr Parker, Assistant
Legal Adviser
Mr Yaghmourian, SEAD
fassed signed cert. +69 docs. to the Parker, dost Leg. Adv.
p.a. J24/2
Problem
•
Should Lord Caithness sign the Public Interest Immunity
(PII) certificate attached to this submission?
1.
Recommendation
2.
As foreshadowed in my submission of 20 February, I recommend that Lord Caithness sign the PII certificate,
having read Mr Maude's certificate of 12 June 1990 and the
documents to which it refers, and I submit the certificate
for his signature. SEAD concur.
Background
3.
PII claims are made on the basis of either class or
contents. A class claim is where a document belongs to a
class which (regardless of contents) should not be
disclosed: see the three classes (A, B and C) set out in
JM1ACC/1
JRB
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