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Falklands/Ponting case: Legal Secretary letter to Cabinet Secretary (New Statesman article on "Secrets of the Ponting Trial") [Attorney-General discussing leak from 'Crown Jewels' - "reluctant and pained acceptance ... that there were now a number of members of the legal profession ... who could not be trusted in matters of this kind"] [declassified Apr 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: FOI release to Margaret Thatcher Foundation from Attorney General's Office (FOI/59/15) f688
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Media, Judiciary, Parliament, Law & order, Defence (Falklands)

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