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監察團辦事處

香港金鐘道三十八號

最高法院

CONFIDENTIAL

Our Ref.: MT/4/04 C

I.F.C. Macpherson, Esq., OBE, JP,

Commissioner,

Assessment Office,

The Supreme Court, 38 Queensway,

HONG KONG.

OFFICE OF THE MONITORING TEAM THE SUPREME COURT

38 QUEENSWAY HONG KONG

26 October 1984

Dear Jan.

It occurs to me that it may be helpful for me to put on paper now some information which I think that Mr. Justice Li and I will need in order to deal, in our independent report, with part of our terms of reference.

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It is a rather difficult matter of judgment on which I imagine that you are likely to express your own views in the Assessment Office report to assess whether the confidentiality factor has, or has not, been a significant obstacle to the submission of views in writing to the Assessment Office. What is clear is that the Press have been determined to make an issue of it

(and to go on doing so !); and it seems to me that the Monitors will have to say something about it. As a contribution to our task of reaching a view on the issue, it would be very useful to know:-

(a)

with names

how many individual letters and addresses were received by the Assessment Office before the Government's final decision about the disposal of submissions was made known on Sunday, 14 October;

(b)

how many of those letters were assessed as box 2; and

(c)

(in due course after the closing date) how many negative letters, with names and addresses, were received between Monday, 15 October and the closing date

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