TNAG-2655-FCO40-3848-Extradition-cases-from-the-UK-and-France-to-Hong-Kong-Lorrai-1992 — Page 6

T Albery Esq

21 Pages Lane

LONDON

N10 1PU

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The Rt. Hon Christopher Patten

47 Morpeth Mansions

Morpeth Terrace

London SWIP IET Office: 071 270 3984

HKD 384/1

20 May 1992

Dear Mr Albery,

Thank you for your card and enclosure of 29 April about the Lorrain Osman case.

Mr Osman's lengthy remand in the UK flows from the very extensive use he has chosen to make of the appeals procedure. To date, seven applications for a writ of habeas corpus have been heard and rejected by the courts. Mr Osman has now petitioned the House of Lords against the judgment in the latest habeas corpus application earlier this year.

The allegations made in the enclosure to your letter are a matter for the courts. They were considered and discussed by the Divisional Court in the course of Mr Osman's unsuccessful fourth and seventh habeas corpus applications.

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Yours sincerely,

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Christopher Patten