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FROM: P F Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
litters to ihme pre
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DATE: 31 January 1992
cc: Sir J Coles
Mr Burns
Mr Berman,
Legal Adviser
Mr Parker,
Assistant Legal
Adviser
PS/Lord Caithness
PS/Lord
LORRAIN OSMAN
Montent C3/2
Problem
1. Lord Derwent and Lord Fanshawe have separately written
to Lord Caithness about a booklet circulated by
Mr Kevin Cahill on the Osman case. How to reply?
Recommendation
2. I recommend that we pass the letters to the Home Office for substantive reply but that Lord Caithness should send short acknowledgements on the lines of the attached drafts.
Argument
3. The Home Office leads on the Osman case. Home Office
officials strongly advise that Lord Caithness should not be drawn into correspondence on this difficult and technical matter. If we arrange to transfer Lord Derwent and Lord Fanshawe's letters to them, they will ensure that they
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