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the Constitution and Pro...
cedure of the Supreme Court of that Colony,
has led to this correspondence, in consequence of the feeling which prevails at Hongkong that it would be very desirable that the Court should, in a certain class of Cases, have Power to grant Special leave to Appeal to ... although the sum in dispute might be below the present Appellable limit.
The particular cases to which I refer are those which involve important questions of constitutional and international Law, and in which there is reason to believe, from previous decisions, that special leave would be granted to Appeal by the Judicial Committee itself.
Cases of this description arise frequently in Hongkong, as in other British Possessions owing to its close proximity to the mainland of China, to the exceptional nature of the relations between that Empire and Foreign Countries, and to the Rationalities represented in the Colony.
It appeared to ...