London talks
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on Ocean Is.
Interlocutory talks between parties involved with the two law suits to be brought against Britain and the British Phosphate Commissioners by the Banaban Islanders continued in London in March.
Sir Alexander Waddell, one of the three commissioners, told PIM the first private hearing was to be held in London on March 22. Dates for the first public hearings have not been set.
The Banabans are sueing the British Government over the mining of phosphates on Ocean Island, GEIC. They are sueing the commissioners over an alleged breach of agreement concerning the replanting of worked-out land on Ocean Island.