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might be preferable to reliance on the position under international law. The judgement on where the balance of advantage lies is thus a financial rather than a legal one.
8.
I attach a draft of SC 14, to which OED, Legal Advisers and BTC's lawyers in Hong Kong have contributed, to indicate the sort of provisions for compensation which our experts
would ideally like to see in the PTG.
9. To save time, I have asked copy addressees to put their
comments directly to you.
Nikawestas.
Deborah Barnes Jones
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