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Falklands/Ponting case: Stephen Wooler minute ("File Note") [record of Solicitor-General's reasons for prosecuting Clive Ponting] [declassified Apr 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: FOI release to Margaret Thatcher Foundation from Attorney General's Office (FOI/59/15) f270
Editorial comments:

The handwritten notes on pp2-3 are by the Solicitor-General, Patrick Mayhew ('PM').

This file has not been accessioned by TNA (at time of writing, Jul 2025), although a document found in it suggests it was recommended for release to them as far back as 2010.

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Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Judiciary, Law & order, Defence (Falklands)

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