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matters which BBMB considered confidential, irrelevant or

both. Counsel for Osman complained during the proceedings

that the documents available were an edited selection.

Counsel for the Government and the magistrate had, and

expressed, sympathy with this complaint. BBMB remained

unco-operative. The difficulty was resolved by the

Attorney-General of Hong Kong obtaining on 4 November, 1986

an order from the High Court of Malaya for the production

and inspection of a wide range of BBMB documents. The form

of the order is so wide that it could be described as an

order for general discovery. The rights to production and

inspection were exercised by. Clifford Howard Allison, who

was a member of the Attorney-General's chambers. He had

produced to him 5439 documents and files. They are listed

and described at pages 44 to 260 of exhibit "AK/1" to Anad

Krishnam's affirmation, dated 24 October 1990. Mr. Allison

selected from the documents produced documents additional

to those already before the magistrate, which he considered

material to the case. The good faith of Mr. Allison's

selection was expressly not impugned before us. The

substantial further selection was served upon Osman's

advisers on 16 December, 1986.

Osman's advisers were anxious to see all of the

documents which Mr. Allison had examined in November, 1986

for themselves. They engaged in correspondence in the

autumn of 1988 with the Attorney-General's chambers who had

not got the documents and who sensibly suggested on 28

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