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1983 Mar 1 - 1984 Nov 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1298
Legal procedure (United States anti-trust investigation into allegations of price fixing against British airlines, following collapse of Laker Airways) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 359
Any docs withheld? 1

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84 Nov 16 Fr Major Legal Procedure: Howe minute to Ridley ("Aviation and US Anti-Trust: The "Laker" Issue") [future working of Bermuda 2 agreement: talks with US officials] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 12 Fr Major Legal Procedure: Howe PS letter to Ridley PS ("Laker") [agenda for Ministerial meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 5 Th Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("United States Airline Anti-Trust Investigation") [international arbitration] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 May 26 Th Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("United States Airline Anti-Trust Investigation") [latest position & lines to take for meeting with Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Apr 7 Th Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("United States Airline Antitrust Investigation") [urgent advice & draft reply following Reagan refusal to halt investigation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 8 Tu Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("United States Grand Jury Investigation of North Atlantic Air Transportation") [UK/US talks; UK Govt intervention] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 28 Mo Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) [draft MT letter of intervention to Reagan] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 30 We Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS minute to No.10 ("The Laker Suit") [strategy for Govt intervention; lifting of injunction against liquidator] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 18 Fr Major Legal Procedure: Lord Cockfield PS minute to No.10 (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) ["could destroy British Caledonian"; UK govt representations to US; intervention by Attorney General in High Court] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 23 We Major Legal Procedure: MT letter to Chair of British Caledonian (Aviation: US Grand Jury Investigation) ["I share your concern"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 31 Th Major Legal Procedure: MT letter to Chair of British Caledonian (United States Airline Antitrust Investigation) [UK countermeasures] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jun 29 We Major Legal Procedure: MT letter to Chair of British Caledonian (US antitrust action against British airlines: use of the Protection of Trading Interests (PTI) Act) [response in line with officials' advice: Govt decision uninfluenced by Thomson's representations] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 29 Tu Major Legal Procedure: MT message to President Reagan (1105Z) (US Department of Justice Airline Antitrust Investigation) [MT pleads for talks and warns of potential damage to US/UK relations if case proceeds] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 18 Su Major Legal Procedure: MT message to President Reagan (Laker case) [Reagan decision not to proceed with indictments; US/UK antitrust negotiations; Camp David] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 8 Th Major Legal Procedure: No.10 (partial) record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Price) [Laker case: indictments] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 8 Th Major Legal Procedure: No.10 letter to US Embassy, London (Laker case) ["the procedure if British Airways were to plead no contest"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 18 Su Major Legal Procedure: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Allan Wallis) [Laker case: Reagan decision not to proceed with indictments; US/UK antitrust negotiations; Camp David] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 3 We Major Legal Procedure: Parkinson PS letter to No.10 ("Aviation Anti-Trust Case: Court of Appeal Decision") [Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Apr 6 We Major Legal Procedure: President Reagan message to MT (White House telegram to Cabinet Office, 1656Z) (United States Airline Antitrust Investigation) [refusal to halt investigation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 15 Th Major Legal Procedure: Ridley letter to Howe ("Aviation and US Antitrust: The "Laker" Issue") [settlement on future working of Bermuda 2 agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]