still less has the Supreme Court of Hong Kong such a power unless acquired by authority of some act of Parliament binding on all Her Majesty's subjects.
No such special power for the trial of offences on land in China is so far as I am aware vested in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong at the present time except for offences committed by British subjects in the peninsula of Macao, and it would seem that so far from the Court possessing such power, ordinarily where an offence is alleged to have been committed in a Foreign Country by a British subject, the party charged if found therein is liable to be tried and punished by the tribunals of the Country in which he is alleged to have committed the offence, and even if he removes to a British possession it would seem that he is liable to be given up for Trial to any country having a Treaty with us providing for Extradition.
In China, however, as in some other countries, we have what is generally known as extra-territorial jurisdiction. We have for many years...
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