The government is repeatedly blocking minutes of a meeting held last year between Attorney General Richard Hermer and Mauritius’ chief legal adviser on the Chagos Surrender Philippe Sands. The Attorney General’s Office has been in regular communication with Philippe Sands with regard to its determination to withhold the details…
The minutes of the meeting in November last year – at which the UK’s candidate for the ICJ Dapo Akande was also present – were originally blocked under S36 of the FOI Act which claims the release of the information would “prejudice — the maintenance of the convention of the collective responsibility of Ministers of the Crown… or would be likely to, inhibit the free and frank provision of advice.” Guido can reveal the Attorney General’s Office gave Starmer’s close friend Philippe Sands advance warning of this with a private offer to him to “raise any factors or considerations” for the blockage of information by the Solicitor General. A total of seven emails were exchanged in relation to the meeting as well as a phone call…
After the FOI was blocked Richard Hermer’s SpAd reached out to Sands by telephone to discuss “a related query from a journalist.” Sands reassured the AGO: “As you will be aware, I do not comment on such matters, and will not comment if asked about the meeting.“ Curious…
Dapo Akande previously sided with Mauritius in its claim to the Chagos Islands – Akande supported the International Court of Justice’s 2019 ruling that the UK should hand the islands back “as swiftly as possible,” even calling the case a “decolonisation” project. To work so extensively to block the minutes of a meeting on 13 November between the three to “discuss international law and the International Court of Justice” is not typical. Unless Chagos was discussed – was it?
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