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ACADEMIC AND GENERAL DIVISION - small DIM logo - Walton Street, Oxford Telephone 0865 56767
Reference RDPC/vjd

CONFIDENTIAL

To: Henry Hardy From: Richard Charkin

Subject: ANDREW MALCOLM

I am astonished at the letter from Andrew Malcolm. Can you please confirm that the following conversations never took place between you and Malcolm:

1. I had taken against Making Names for reasons best known to myself, etc. [In red handwriting alongside 1 & 2: HALF-TRUE]

2. You and I were having a long-running personal/political power struggle. [exaggeration]

3. You Persisted in persuading him to revise the book for us. [NO]

4. You gave assurances as to publication. [NO]

Finally, why on earth are you involved in this after transferring to being social sciences editor? [NOT INVOLVED]

bcc. Ivon Asquith, D.C. Moody

Go to the next item or the previous item in the Evidence (red) file.

Go to Malcolm's Statement of Claim, to the Case History, to the Affidavits: Ivon Asquith (1), Asquith (2), Henry Hardy, William Shaw (solicitor) (1), Sir Roger Elliott (1), Margaret Goodall, to the Witness Statements: Elliott, Hardy, Richard Charkin, Nicola Bion, Goodall, to the courtroom testimony of the Oxford Six, 14/3/1990: Elliott, Goodall, Bion, Asquith, Charkin, Hardy, to the testimony of Andrew Malcolm 13/3/1990, to the Chancery Court Judgment, the Appeal Court Judgment, the Damages assessment, the Settlement agreement.