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PDF 84 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Sir Anthony Kershaw letter to Heseltine ("Falkland Islands Inquiry") [sends documents leaked by Ponting, including envelope] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Ponting statement and resignation letter ("Statement of Clive Sheridan Ponting") [admission of leak] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Ministry of Defence Police statement (interrogation of Clive Ponting) [Ponting re: "the Belgrano business ... This country has nothing to hide, so why hide it?"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Stephen Wooler minute ("File Note") [record of Solicitor-General's reasons for prosecuting Clive Ponting] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Ministry of Defence Police minute to 2nd PUS ("Clive Sheridan Ponting OBE") ["no security interest is involved in this leak .... in my view, not necessary, in the public interest, to pursue the alleged criminal aspect of the case"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Cabinet Office letter to MOD ("Leak Investigation") [account of events; Ponting admission; advice of Cabinet Office] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Ministry of Defence letter to Clive Ponting (resignation refused) [suspended without pay pending decision on prosecution and disciplinary charges] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Cabinet Office conversation record (Peter Le Cheminant, John Ward of First Division Association) [MOD aware of Ponting's pacifist views] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department conversation record (Mayhew, Hetherington) [case further discussed by Solicitor-General and DPP; DPP saw case for proceeding, Solicitor-General's previous judgment unchanged; had rung Attorney-General who agreed; DPP to proceed at once] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Ministry of Defence letter to Cabinet Office ("Leak Investigation") [neither document contains material disclosure of which would be damaging to national security] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Solicitor-General minute (consent to prosecution) [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department conversation record (Mayhew, Hetherington, Wood) [case further discussed by Solicitor-General and DPP; "inappropriate to prosecute Dalyell" or to call him as a witness] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department briefing for Havers ("Attorney-General") [meeting with DPP; "It would appear Ponting will plead guilty"; using MPs as witnesses - Kershaw alternative to Dalyell; leak to New Statesman] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department conversation record (Attorney-General, DPP, officials) [possible police reinterview of Ponting in connection to New Statesman leak] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: MOD minute ("New Statesman article - the Belgrano papers") [detailed assessment of claims made by New Statesman following leak] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Attorney-General's office conversation record (Havers, DPP) ["The Attorney-General expressed the view that there was no question but that Ponting should be prosecuted"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Aug 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) 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]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: MT letter to Dr David Owen (draft as amended by officials) [denies involvement in decision to prosecute Ponting and rejects a White Paper on the General Belgrano] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 ("Prosecution of Mr Ponting: Sequence of Events") [decision by Solicitor-General] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officer's Department letter to No.10 ("R v Ponting") [role of Solicitor-General] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 84 Dec 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department conversation record (DPP, Counsel for the Crown, MOD and other officials) [disclosure of "Crown Jewels" to the defence - MOD wanting to create a version suitable for disclosure edited down to confidential or declassified; possibility that jury vetting would be necessary] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: No.10 conversation record (1700Z) (MT, Foreign Secretary) ('Belgrano') [MT agreed that the unexpurgated "Crown Jewels" could be disclosed to the defence on condition that part of the trial would be held in camera] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officer's Department letter to MOD ("Ponting") [following ministerial decision yesterday, DPP now has "Crown Jewels"; Legal Secretary and FCO lawyer think ministers need further discussion before attached documents are given to Ponting's lawyers] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Jan 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department minute for Havers ("Ponting") [Heseltine approves that Crown Jewels supporting documents may be disclosed to the defence; defining the "interest of the state"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Director of Public Prosecutions minute ("Regina v. Ponting: Opening Note") [summary of case against Ponting; "at no time did he suggest that the Belgrano was sunk for any reason than that it was a threat to the Task Force at the time"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Attorney-General's note for Lord Chancellor ("In re: Regina v Ponting") [explains need for jury vetting] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Justice McCowan's ruling ("Regina v Ponting") [mens rea not necessary; "'the interests of the State' must mean the interests of the State according to the policies laid down for or by its recognised organs of government"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Justice McCowan's direction to the jury ("Regina v Ponting") ["the words 'in the interests of the State' ... mean the policies of the State as they were in July 1984"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officer's Legal Secretary letter to No.10 Press Office ("Ponting Case") [Line to take depending on outcome of trial; "If he is acquitted, we shall have a rough time"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officer's Department briefing for Attorney-General (statement to Commons) [draft and notes for supplementary questions as sent to MT] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department minute for Solicitor-General (Judge's direction to the jury in Ponting case) [defining the "interest of the state"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Solicitor-General note for Legal Secretary (The Times leader attacking Justice McCowan's direction to the jury) [urgently seeks transcript; "We need a full discussion of our position"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Feb 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officer's Department letter to MOD ("The Ponting Case: Alleged offer of immunity from prosecution") [Havers's 'hunch' is that Whitmore should not write rebutting Guardian allegations] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department briefing for Minister of Health (reasons for prosecution and vetting of jury) [government cannot comment on decision of the jury] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) 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]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department conversation record (Attorney-General, DPP, Legal Secretary) [consideration given to prosecuting Ponting for perjury following his acquital; decision against, "not in the public interest"] [declassified Apr 2017]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Law Officers' Department) Falklands/Ponting case: Law Officers' Department minute (claim that ministers declined to appear as witnesses in the Ponting case) [defence never asked for them] [declassified Apr 2017]
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