URGENT
Brian Bresnihan Esq., Refugee Coordinator, Security Branch, Government Secretariat, HONG KONG
Dear Brian
HCMP 2368 of 1992
British Embassy Hanoi
16 Ly Thuong Kiệt Ilanoi
Telephone: 252510. 252349, 252620 Telex: 411405 (a/b BRITEM VI)
21 April 1993
1.
Thank you for your letter of 14 April 93 enclosing the letter from "Knight & Ho" to the Secretary of State and the other relevant papers filed to the Court.
2. I have carefully read over the Applicants' submission and have it. I am also supplying you with some made some comments on background information in the following paragraphs in the hope that it might assist the Attorney General's Chambers in drafting its I am copying this letter to Mr. Ron Godfrey. reply to the Court.
reply from the use any of it in drafting a should he wish to Secretary of State.
3.
'Hang' and I went to interview the 2nd Applicant's mother brother 'Son' in Hanoi in accordance with the instruction of the Immigration Department acting on the advice of AGC. I did not inform our Ambassador (who was on leave) prior to the home visit since I considered that such a visit was similar in nature to my regular home visits to ORP-returnees and deportees.
4.
The Applicants' lawyers are completely mistaken in describing my role in the British Embassy in Hanoi as "performing a Hong Kong Immigration Officer investigatory function, as a back-up support operation to the screening of asylum seekers by his colleagues in The main responsibilities of the Hong Kong's Detention Centres". Vietnamese Migrants Unit of the British Embassy to which I belong are two-fold: (a) to ensure the successful and smooth running of
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