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outher pount of law invoked
Full Court of Hong Kong would seem to be
necessary.
If the appeal succeeded, persons
who engaged in armed attacks of the kind
described above could be convicted of piracy
in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. On the
other hand, if the appeal failed, it seems that
we should be justified in raising the question
as to whether Imperial legislation were not
necessary in order to enable such persons to be
convicted of piracy in Hong Kong and elsewhere
in the Colonies.
In either event, therefore, an appeal
to the Privy Council would have not unimportant Cassqualty practical results; and the point to be considered
MAMUSKLARIM, is whether we should apply for special
leave to appeal. In this connection I am having
the Straits Settlements case to which you referud
looked up, and I will let you have the papers in
due course also the Order in Council relating
to appeals to the Privy Council from the Supreme
Court of Hong Kong.
Lord The difficulty, of course, in the present case isthrat, as Drundin porinted out at the three of D. kurslar appeal, the Privy Coment will mnly review crumunal proceedings wives exceptional caro
74. Duncan.
10th June, 1931.
I think the first thing we had better
do is to send a copy of this to the Admiralty
for observations.
their reply as soon as possible, in case it
should be considered possible and desirable to
apply to the Privy Council for leave to appeal.
While we are about it, we had better have at least
six copies made of the Judgment, as we are sure
to want
Say we should like to have
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dealing