TNAG-0721-FCO40-919-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 52

CONFIDENTIAL

Mr. Rudyard

A. Kis

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SWIA 2AH

HKG 386/1

1 0 MAR 1978

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Sir Clive Rose KCMG|

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Cabinet Office

70 Whitehall

London SW1A 2AS

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

1.

Thank you very much for your letter of 2 March.

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2.

We will of course be quite content to take on the burden of preparing a paper on the legal and constitutional implications of the various alternatives to the existing procedure. As you say, most of the material already exists in the FCO, and I do not anticipate much difficulty in pulling it together.

3.

I have asked Tony Rushford to prepare the first draft of such a paper which I will look at. We will then, as you suggest, seek to clear it with the Law Officers' Department, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Home Office.

4.

I am sending a copy of this letter to Mike de Winton (Law Officers' Department) and also to John Stewart and Tony Rushford.

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Yours mor

Ron Smi

Ian Sinclair Legal Adviser

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