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Mr Stuar

Mr Maxe

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PETITION BY MR LAW KAM-SANG

PROBLEM

Susan pise type letter

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To decide what reply should be given to a petition from

Mr Law Kam-sang to the Secretary of State, forwarded under cover

of a despatch from Hong Kong dated 10 April. Mr Law seeks the

리리

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리디

Jaji

reinstatement of the Crown land permits under which he operated

the quarry and which were cancelled in December 1970; or compensation in lieu.

BACKGROUND

2.

The background to the case was set out in my submission

to Mr Youde dated 7 May. I then recommended, with the concurrence of the Department's Legal Adviser and of Gibraltar and General Department, that we should not accede to the petitioner's request.

Mr Youde did not dissent, but asked that further information should first be obtained from Hong Kong concerning: -

(a) the nature of the advance warning given to the

petitioner about the cancellation of the permit; (b) the date of the construction of the access road to

the petitioner's quarry; and whether, in view of its cost (HK$115,900), the petitioner might have an

equitable case for some form of compensation;

the nature of the circumstances under which

(၁)

extensions were given to certain other permit-

holders.

We referred these points to Hong Kong, who have now

replied in a despatch dated 23 May.

3.

ARGUMENT

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I think that the information contained in Hong Kong's

latest despatch supports my earlier recommendation that the

/petitioner's

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