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The memo bears a "chop mark" together with the date 7/2/92.
This chop was used, according to the evidence filed on behalf of
A
the Governor of Hong Kong, by the Confidential Registry of the
Royal Hong Kong Police Force until March 1990.
B
C
D
E
F
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G
H
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After that it
was replaced by a different stamp and was left on a side table
in the Confidential Registry and not normally used. According
to the affirmation of the Confidential Assistant who was working
in the Registry on 7th February 1992 it was not used by her on
that date or by anyone else. Each of the Jalil documents bears
an undated stamp of the Crime Wing Police Headquarters of the
Organised and Serious Crime Group of the Royal Hong Kong Police.
These stamps are undated.
On an earlier date, prior to 20th January 1992, the French
Attorney representing Mr. Saniman in the French extradition
proceedings, received a similar package.
It was on 20th February 1992 that Mr. Osman made his
application for leave to apply for judicial review. The relief
which Mr. Osman primarily seeks on that application is an order
of certiorari to quash the decision of the Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate and a declaration that that order is void and of no
effect.
The grounds upon which relief is sought are as follows:
"The Order of the Chief Stipendiary Magistrate ("the
Committal Order") was made in breach of natural justice.
The requesting state, the Government of Hong Kong, had
withheld from both the Applicant and the Court vital and
relevant material, going to the merits and the strength of
the prosecution against the Applicant. The Applicant has
been deprived of the elementary right to be notified of
evidence known to the Hong Kong Government, which would
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