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(17) It is perhaps superfluous to refer to such cases as
Dillet, 12 A.C. 459, Ibrahim (1914) .C. 599 (in which some
features analogous to the present case will be observed), or
Knowles (1930) 4.0. 366. In the first case attention is
particularly directed to the second half of the first
paragraph on page 467; in the second case to the passage
commencing at the foot of page 614 and ending in the middle
of page 615; and in the third case to the paragraph beginning
at the foot of page 371 and ending in the middle of page 372.
The principle clearly is that the Privy Council does not sit
as a Court of Criminal Appeal. Before it will review criminal
proceedings, there must have been such a disregard of the
forms of legal process, or such a violation of the principles
of natural justice, that substantial and grave injustice
results. In view of the finding of a special jury, after a
careful summing-up by an experienced judge containing a strong
warning to disregard the evidence of Mary Pine referred to
but not forthcoming, in face of the decision of the Full
Court, can this application in any way escape exclusion under
the principle indicated above? In the view of the Law Offi ors
of the Crown in Hong Kong, it is unthinkable that it should.