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H*K173/1

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Mr Rushforð. RUSHFORD

Legal Adviser

1. I attach a telegram from Hong Kong asking for legal advice on the question of the extent to which the Hong Kong Government can submit to other jurisdiction and in so doing submit HMG to that jurisdiction.

There

2. From a purely lay point of view the argument put forward in the telegram would seem reasonable. is also likely to be considerable benefits to the UK as a result of British companies being awarded contracts in the project in question.

3.

I should be grateful for your comments and your guidance on the form our reply should take.

21 April 1978

Thompson

preu

Hong Kong & General Dept 4069 K270

I think that

Hong Kong jurisdie twin

the Government of

can

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