Item 46 - Letter from Kevin Boyle to Geoff (Jeffrey) Dudgeon

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UGA A/A44/5/5/1/5/46

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Letter from Kevin Boyle to Geoff (Jeffrey) Dudgeon

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  • 30/03/1981

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Copy letter from Kevin Boyle to Dudgeon, Belfast, informing Dudgeon that Boyle has heard that Dudgeon's case challenging the law on homosexual rights will be heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Boyle continues to respond in detail and in an emotive manner regarding Dudgeon's decision to remove Boyle and Francis Keenan as legal representation on this case. "I will not bother to disguise the fact that I am personally deeply hurt by these developments. . .It is quite another thing when, after five years involvement in a case. . .to find out at the very last stage another barrister is briefed instead.

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