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RE: L,E. Osman - Application for Habeas Corpus
of notice.
Private siffice plenty
N. Parker
K275
270 387
As you may be aware, our client has made Я further application for Habeas Corpus. Our client's Affirmation, a copy of which is enclosed, exhibits a number of documents which were disclosed as a result of discovery in civil proceedings in Hong Kong brought by BBMB against our client and others. In the light of the documents which have been disclosed our client has been advised that the documents previously disclosed by you on behalf of the Poreign and Commonwealth Office, for which Public Interest Immunity was subsequently successfully sought, are now highly relevant to the issues in our client's latest application.
At a preliminary hearing on 31st January 1992 Leading Counsel instructed by our client informed the Court that it would be his intention to apply for an order for production to the Court pursuant to RSC Order 24 Rule 12 of the documents previously disclosed together with all of the documents referred to in the Certificate dated 12th June 1990 by the Honourable Francis Maude MP.
We therefore formally require the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to confirm that he is prepared to produce to the Court on a date to be notified the documents referred to above.
We appreciate that the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is not at present a party to our client's application. However, should your instructions be to refuse to produce the documents to the Court then it will be necessary for the Secretary of State to be joined as a party to the proceedings. Perhaps in those circumstances you would indicate whether he is prepared to become a Respondent without the necessity of us applying to Court for a formal order,
Although the comments of Lord Justice Woolf in this connection may have been reported to you by the Crown Prosecution Service on behalf of the Governor of Brixton Prison, His Lordship indicated that he would wish if
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