TNAG-0722-FCO40-920-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 128

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Sir Clive Rose KCMG

CABINET OFFICE

CONFIDENTIAL

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

19 April 1978

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE DOTS

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You wrote to me on 2 March suggesting that I prepare, in consultation with the Law Officers' Department, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Home Office, a paper on the legal and constitutional implications of the various alternatives to the existing procedures govering the exercise of the prerogative of mercy in relation to capital cases in the dependent territories.

I now enclose a copy of the paper in its final form. It incorporates material and amendments suggested by the other Departments whom we have consulted.

Copies of this letter, with enclosure, go to de Winton (Law Officers' Department), Miss Clayton (Home Office) and Huebner (Lord Chancellor's Office).

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Ian Sinclair Legal Adviser

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