CO129-540-18 Service of writs 11-12-1931 - 14-11-1933 — Page 8

In

any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. T 11090/11090/371.

and address-

not to any person by name,

but to-

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

Sir,

수요

FOREIGN OFFICE.

RECEIVE

S.W.1.

1933

14th October, 1933.

.

C. C. O. REGY

(5 (4)

bery (aufe auch woh) to $. Kong ē

evels, in org.

I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to

invite reference to the Colonial Office letter No. 92685/32

of the 5th December 1932 enclosing copy of a despatch from

the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong

conveying an explanation by the Registrar of the Supreme

Court there that certain documents issued by the High

Court of Justice at Tehran for service upon a person

named Agha Mohamed Ali could not be served on him unless

accompanied by a letter of request from the Persian court

concerned.

2.

I am to enclose for the information of Secretary

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister copy of a note which has now

been received from the Persian Chargé d'Affaires returning

the documents for service upon Agha Mohamed Ali and

explaining that it is not the practice of the Persian

Courts to issue formal letters of request where the service

of writs is desired.

3.

In view of the fact that the service of process

from foreign tribunals is constantly effected in this

country through the High Court of Justice without insisting

upon the production of a letter of request for service,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

notwithstanding

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notwithstanding that the terms of the relevant Rule of

Court (Order XI Rule 9) are similar to those of the

corresponding rule in force in Hong Kong which are cited

in the enclosure in your above-mentioned letter, I am to

express the hope that Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister may see

his way to return the accompanying documents to Hong Kong

with an intimation that they should now be served on the

person for whom they are intended without requiring the

production of the letter of request which the rules

contemplate.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Charles Dodd.

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