TNAG-2173-FCO40-3110-Hong-Kong-Bill-of-Rights-1990 — Page 228

律政司署

CONFIDENTIAL

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS

4/F., HIGH BLOCK

QUEENSWAY GOVERNMENT OFFICES 66 QUEENSWAY, HONG KONG

Telex: 81710 HKAGC HX

Fry: 862-6 - 8690720

URGENT BY FAX

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金鐘道政府合署高座4樓

MM MAR 186710 HKAGC HX

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4X Our Ref:

* Your Ref.:

AGC ADV/638/00C VII

Tel. No.:

867 2157

27 February 1990

Mr. Christopher Wood,

Hong Kong Desk,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.

HKD241/1

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9 MAR 1990

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Dau in Wood,

DESK OFFICER

PA

REGISTRY

Action Taken

The Solicitor General, Frank Stock Q.C., has asked me to fax you today as a matter of urgency.

He is leaving Hong Kong tonight for the U.K. and will be in London for the next 10 days or so. He

wishes to speak to you and Paul Fifoot about the constitutional aspects of our proposed Bill of Rights in the light

of telegrams and faxes which have passed between us

in the past couple of months.

We have learned only today that it is proposed to re-submit the draft Bill of Rights to ExCo next Tuesday (i.e. 6 March). The Solicitor General would like, if possible, to see you both on Friday 2 March. This will give him time to get back to us before the ExCo meeting if anything important emerges in your discussions.

He will telephone you when he arrives in London on Wednesday.

I also wish to put you on notice that I will be sending (by fax) a bundle of advices and memoranda which the Solicitor General wants to use when he meets with you.

It should arrive on Thursday.

as

sincers,

(P.J. Dykes)

Assistant Solicitor General

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