BURCHELLS.
Sir John Risley, K.C.M.G., K.C. 5, The Sanctuary,
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C.T. D. BURCHELL.
A.W.BURCHELL.
C.B.
PHONE - VICTORIA 6431.
Colonial Office,
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Westminster, S.W.1.
17th August,
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Dear Sir John,
Tai Koo Sugar defining Company Limited
Hong Kong.
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I am in receipt of your letter. I have looked up
all the papers in this matter and refreshed my memory so as
to enable me to answer the enquiry of the Governor of Hong
Kong.
At the consultation between the leading and junior
counsel instructed in this matter, Mr. Lavington the junior
counsel was strongly of opinion that an injunction could be
obtained, but Mr. Simonds K.C. was doubtful. Counsel met
several times after that privately and eventually gave the
joint opinion of which I sent a copy to Bushe. The point of
the injunction is dealt with under the heading (3) in which
counsel state that it raises "a somewhat difficult question.
"Most of the cases dealing with the rights of third parties
"who have been damnified by actions ultra vires a Company are
"cases relating to statutory companies but in the case of
"National Telephone Company Limited
Constables of St.
V.
Peter Port, 1900 Appeal Cases 317 Lord Davey in his judgment
"does not seem to imply that in such a case as this the
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