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XUim.iil lUSXiKKQY,
lyaiaauu
v,jNFIDENTIAI.
No, 92, September 22, 1953*
(164115/10/53)

My Lord Marquess,

I have tho honour to refer to paragraph 6 of Sir
Erie Beckett*a report on his vl3it to tho Persian Gulf
States in 1952 and to enclose a copy of a despatch from
the Political Agent about tho prosont state of the
administration of Justice in Bahrain. Sir Eric recommended

that the work of completing tho now Civil and Criminal
codes should bo hastened and on tho 31st July 1952 Mr,
Eden reported in his despatch No. 134 (EA 1642/7) that
tiie new Penal Code would bo ready shortly and the Pul or

was notified accordingly. I urtierstand however that
lattorly little further progress has boon made. I ora
disturbed by this continued delay not only from the
point of view of tho inconvonience caused in our own

courts but also because of• tho impossibility of inspiring
any reform of the local Bahrain Courts until wo can
;
present tho Euler with a systematized body of law for
tho Persian Gulf which Ms courts would bo capable of
understanding and applying. Their present inadequacy

/has

Tho Most Honourable,
The Marquess of Galisbury, K.G • • P.C,,

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary
or State for Foreign Affairs,
■
Foreign Office,
London, G.W.l,

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