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Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Brittan (“The Prison Adjudication System”) [“view with considerable concern any possibility that the criminal courts which are already stretched to breaking point should have further burdens placed upon them”] [declassified 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1782 f144
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Judiciary, Parliament, Law & order