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Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Parkinson.
Mr. Tomlinson.
Sir C. Bottomley.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
binding upon all the Courts of Hong
Kong; in addition the question of law
involved in this judgment is one of
far-reaching importance since it is
conceived that others of His Majesty's
Criminal Courts in the Far East will
DRAFT.
FURTHER ACTION.
regard the judgment as one which,
though not binding on them, they ought
to follow, whereby the freedom of
action of His Majesty's Naval Forces
in the suppression of piracy on the
High Seas in the Far East may, if the
law has been rightly declared in the
said judgment, be seriously curtailed.
I am of the opinion that &
question of law arises which it would
be proper, if His Majesty so thought
fit, to refer to the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council in pursuance of
Section 4 of the Judicial Committee Act,
1833, and I have to request your
Lordship
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