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Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department conversation record (Attorney-General, DPP and officials) [New Statesman leak - Ponting to be reinterviewed about leak but no specific documents would be put to him] [declassified Apr 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: FOI release to Margaret Thatcher Foundation from Attorney General's Office (FOI/59/15) f335
Editorial comments:

Supporting documents follow giving the outcome of the reinterview.

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: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Media, Judiciary, Parliament, Law & order, Defence (Falklands)

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