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Attorney General’s Legal Advice

Asked why the Attorney General’s legal advice and the full supplementary papers had not been circulated to cabinet two days before the 17 March Cabinet meeting the PMOS said that as he had explained this morning and as the Prime Minister explained at PMQs, the Attorney General was himself present at the Cabinet meeting and he gave an oral presentation of his view and answered questions on that view. This was the right way to proceed in terms of Ministerial Code and an oral presentation did not need to be circulated to colleagues in advance. It was only cabinet papers that had to be accompanied by the full text.

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Let’s not put anything in writing eh? – It might just come back to haunt us.
Comment by Chuck Unsworth — 10 Mar 2005 on 1:35 pm | Link

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