CO129-543-4 Piracy- Case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong and others 10-2-1933 - 2-3-1934 — Page 44

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a question which by the judgment of the Full Court of

Hong Kong delivered on the 1st April, 1931, was determined

in the negative with the result that the said conviction

was quashed and the prisoners were discharged;

that no

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 and that it is conceived

that others of His Majest's Criminal Courts in the Far

East will regard the said judgment as one which, though

not binding on them, they ought to follow; that the

Boy the

efficacy/the protection afforded by His Majesty's Naval

Forces against piracy on the High Seas in the Far East

may, if the law has been rightly declared in the said

judgment, be seriously affected, and that in the se

circumstances the said Secretary of State humbly submitted

that the matter was a proper one to be referred to the

Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council under

the Statute aforesaid and prt yed that His Maje sty might be

pleased to direct accordingly:

NOW THEREFORE His Majesty having taken the said letter

into His consideration is pleased by and with the advice

2.