Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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IN RE A REFERENCE UNDER THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE ACT, 1833, AND IN RE PIRACY JURE GENTIUM.

(1934) 49 Ll L Rep 411

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OFTHE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Before Viscount Sankey (Lord Chancellor), Lord Atkin, Lord Tomlin, Lord Macmillan and Lord Wright.

International law-Piracy jure gentium- Reference to Judicial Committee of Privy Council under Judicial Committee Act, 1833, upon question "whether actual robbery is an essential element of the crime of piracy jure gentium or whether a frustrated attempt to commit a piratical robbery is not equally piracy jure gentium."

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