Registry No. HKK 14/18
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DEPARTMENT
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Торбесте
Hong Kong Department
PRIORITY MARKINGS
(Date)
Despatched
Top Secret
Secret
K Confidential x
Restpicted Unclassified
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
En Clair.
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Flash
Rriority
X Routine+
"Security_classification
-if any
[ Privacy marking
-if any
[Codeword—if any]
]
CONFIDENTIAL
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
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Sir L. Monson Mr.Wilford
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Legal Advisers P.S. to
Mr. Royle
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1
Addressed to
telegram No....
And to
repeated for information to
Saving to..
GOVERNOR HONG KØND
(date)
Your Saving despatch No.216 of February 1970
Prevention of Bribery Bill
As promised in my telegram No.547, Clause 10
has now been submitted to Ministers.
2.
Though technically this Clause creates an
offence separate and distinct from that of corruption,
any person convicted under this Clause would in
reality be convicted because the circumstances
raised a suspicion that he had been guilty of
corruption. As such the Clause violates the
principle that a man shall not be convicted of a
unless a
ériminal offence/Court is satisfied beyond reasonable
doubt that he has committed the offence. I cannot be
ed
accept t
It
that this is an "abstract principle". On the
contrary it is basic to the whole British approach to
criminal law both in this country and in other
/countries
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