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1986 Mar 17 - 1986 May 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1700
Downing Street (Libel action by Richard Holt MP against The Teacher magazine: risk that No.10 staff may be called to give evidence)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Unclassified
Page count: 31
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Date Value Title
86 Mar 17 Mo Minor Judiciary: No.10 internal minute: Flesher to Wicks (“Richard Holt, M.P.”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Minor Judiciary: No.10 letter to Treasury Solicitor (Richard Holt libel action) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Minor Judiciary: No.10 letter to Office of the Treasury Solicitor (Richard Holt MP libel action) [“this is a matter on which the response should come formally from Treasury Solicitors”] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 24 Th Minor Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 24 Th Minor Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 28 Mo Minor Judiciary: No.10 minute to MT (“Richard Holt MP”) [MT concurs with advice that No.10 should seek to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 30 We Minor Judiciary: No.10 minute to Treasury Solicitor (Richard Holt libel action) [No.10 refuses to be drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 Apr 30 We Minor Judiciary: No.10 letter to Murdo Maclean (Richard Holt MP libel action) [“we are in essence rejecting a call for help from a Government backbencher”] [declassified 2014]
86 May 13 Tu Minor Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to No.10 (“Mr Richard Holt’s libel action”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 May 16 Fr Minor Judiciary: No.10 internal minute: Flesher to Wicks (“Richard Holt”) [No.10 seeks to avoid being drawn into Holt’s libel action against ‘The Teacher’ publication] [declassified 2014]
86 May 22 Th Minor Judiciary: Treasury Solicitor letter to Richard Holt MP’s solicitors (“Holt -v- the Teacher Publishing Company Ltd and others”) [No.10 refuses to be drawn into Holt’s libel action] [declassified 2014]