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J A B Stewart Esq, OBE
Hong Kong & General Department Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Dear Stewart
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51 13 Jui 6977
HKG 3801
14 July, 1977
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Joels
ee W.1.AD with draft reply
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Since I wrote to you on 30 June I have spoken several times to Lois Browne-Evans about the petition she promised to draft. On each occasion she has pleaded pressure of work for not keeping her promise, but has nevertheless said she definitely intends to keep it. I think she probably does though she is plainly in no hurry. I have not thought it necessary to press her hard, given that the date by which the petition to the Privy Council must be lodged has kept on being postponed (your telegrams 101 of 15 June, 115 of 29 June and 121 of 4 July). Moreover I presume that the Privy Council will certainly See below need several weeks, and perhaps some months, to decide whether Leave to
Appeal is granted. If you are able to give us any indication of the likely timing, this will be much appreciated.
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2. You may incidentally like to know that the idea of a referendum, mentioned in my letter of 9 June and Harry Stanley's of 23 June, has not been pursued any further. I doubt whether it now will be, for the Opposition have evidently decided to abandon their idea of taking parliamentary action to try and have capital punishment abolished.
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Yours ever
Lloyd
Peter
GP Lloyd
Acting Governor
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