“In the light of the stance taken by the US government that it would reconsider the intelligence relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom if the court were to make the order sought by the claimant, the appropriate course was to stay proceedings until after the outcome of the forthcoming hearing in the US Federal District Court, in the hope that a means would be found under the United States’ own judicial procedures of securing disclosure of the potentially exculpatory documents to the claimant’s US lawyers and thereby bringing the matter to an early and just resolution.”
WLR Daily, 23rd October 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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