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HKD 384/1

RECEIVE

03 MAR 1992

DEA OFFICEF

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MIR Mckeelt, HED

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24/2

Mr Burns

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PS/Lord, Caithness

FROM: P F Ricketts

Hong Kong Department

DATE: 21 February 1992

LORRAIN OSMAN: HABEAS CORPUS NO 7

cc: Sir J Coles

Mr Anderson, Acting

Legal Adviser

Mr Parker, Assistant

Legal Adviser

Mr Yaghmourian, SEAD

fassed signed cert. +69 docs. to the Parker, dost Leg. Adv.

p.a. J24/2

Problem

•

Should Lord Caithness sign the Public Interest Immunity

(PII) certificate attached to this submission?

1.

Recommendation

2.

As foreshadowed in my submission of 20 February, I recommend that Lord Caithness sign the PII certificate,

having read Mr Maude's certificate of 12 June 1990 and the

documents to which it refers, and I submit the certificate

for his signature. SEAD concur.

Background

3.

PII claims are made on the basis of either class or

contents. A class claim is where a document belongs to a

class which (regardless of contents) should not be

disclosed: see the three classes (A, B and C) set out in

JM1ACC/1

JRB

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