a question which by the judgment of the Full Court of
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Hong Kong delivered on the 1st April, 1931, was determine d
in the negative with the result that the said conviction
was quashed and the prisoners were discharged;
that ho
appeal lies from the above judgment of the Full Court
which is and remains binding upon all the Courts of Hong
kong;
that the question of law involved in this judgment
is one of far-reaching importance, that it is conceived
X
that others of His Majesty's Criminal Courts in the Far
East will regard the said judgment as one which, though
not binding on them, they ought to follow; and that the
freedom of action of His Maje sty's Naval Forces in the
prevention &
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; and that in the se
circumstances the said Secretary of State humbly submitted
ajesty that the matter was a proper one to be
to His hajesty that
referred to the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's
L
Mayad & that His Majesty might be pleased to direct
aforesaid:
Privy Council under the Statute aforesaid:
accordingly
NOW THEREFORE His Majesty having taken the said lette
into His consideration is pleased by and with the advice
of the Privy Council to order and it is hereby ordered
2.