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"ment to the demand for extradition as can possibly "be, and I decline entirely to give any effect to the "argument of the learned Counsel for the prisoner "which, as I understand it, may be compendiously "atated thus. He does not deny that there might be "such a requisition made by the diplomatic represent- "atives of the demanding power to the Executive "Government here; but the suggestion is that that
"must be shown to have been a formal demand, and
"that the assent must have been given by the Secre- "tary of State in some other way than by signing the "form of order to the Chief Magistrate which I have
"just cited."
It appears to us that it was solely because of the line
of argument adopted by the prisoner's Counsel on the Court's
procedure in the case that Lord Chief Justice Russell remark-
ed:
"Lastly, upon the argument of the case before us the
"Executive Government appears in the only way in
*which they can be represented in our Courts, that
"is by the recognised Law Officers of the Government
"of the day. They are here expressing the desire
"of the Government trat this extradition shall take
"place."
It is, we submit, clear from these remarks: -
(1) That the objections to the procedure adopted in
that particular case rendered it recessary for
the Law Officers of the Government of Great Bri tain to appear in Court on the hearing of such
objections.
(2) That their appearance was held to be a neces-
sary and proper sequence to the objections as being the only way in which the Government in
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