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Chinese debtors residing at known addresses in China has required the Chinese creditors to claim satisfaction in the Chinese Courts.
(b). It is stated that applications for the execution of the judgments of the Hongkong Courts against absconding Chinese debtors are rarely made as the action that may be taken by the British Consular Authority on receipt of such application is uncertain.
There is a consensus of opinion among the members both official and unofficial of the legal community here that judgments of the Hongkong Courts should be accepted and that such judgments should precede applications for Consular assistance by the British Consular Authorities as disposing of the merits of the case with which they deal.
(c). There is a difference of opinion among the members of this community and among the gentlemen who have tendered me advice in the matter as to whether Consular assistance should be given in any case on which the Hongkong Courts have not pronounced judgment.
(d) In the above connection it has been pointed out to me that the law of Hongkong does not admit of a judgment for debt entered against a bankrupt or against a contributory to a Company wound up by order of the Court.
(e) There is also a difference of opinion among the various gentlemen who have tendered me advice in the matter as to whether British Consular assistance can properly be invoked in cases where judgment creditors are not British subjects.
3. My own views on these matters are:-
(a)