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    The British Supreme Court for China (originally the British Supreme Court for China and Japan) was a court established in the Shanghai International Settlement...
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    The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (SPC) is the highest court of the People's Republic of China. It hears appeals of cases from...
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    The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (initialism: UKSC) is the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom for all civil cases, and for criminal cases...
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    supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court...
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    main courts judging extraterritorial cases were the Shanghai Mixed Court and the British Supreme Court for China. Similar courts were established for treaty...
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    Full Court made up of 3 judges. From 1913 to 1943, a judge of the British Supreme Court for China in Shanghai was eligible to sit on the Full Court. In...
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  • court also heard appeals from British consular courts in Japan. Appeals from the British Court for Japan lay to the British Supreme Court for China and...
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  • Japan. In 1865, the British Supreme Court for China and Japan was established in Shanghai, China as a first instance consular court for cases in the Shanghai...
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    similar in structure to the British Supreme Court for China and Corea that had been established in Shanghai in 1865. The court was originally headquartered...
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    part of the British consular district of Kashgar, which had previously been under the jurisdiction of the British Supreme Court for China. This ceased...
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    Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (category British Supreme Court for China judges)
    His last judicial position was as Acting Chief Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan. Goodwin was born on 2 April 1817 in King's Lynn...
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  • used in Britain and some former British colonies for a government prosecutor. In former British Colonies and certain British extraterritorial courts the title...
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    serving as a judge or Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China in Shanghai. The three judges of the court from 1903 to 1930 were: Frederick Samuel...
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  • Hannen, who served as Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and also as British Consul-General in Shanghai. Sir Nicholas died...
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    Havilland de Sausmarez (category British Supreme Court for China judges)
    judicial position before retirement was chief judge of the British Supreme Court for China. He later served as bailiff of Guernsey. Sausmarez was born...
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    Former Consulate-General of the United Kingdom, Shanghai (category China–United Kingdom relations)
    The British Supreme Court for China was abolished under the BritishChinese Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China. After...
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  • Canada, the Supreme Court of Ghana, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of Japan...
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    Hannen who was Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan from 1891 to 1900 and concurrently British Consul General at Shanghai from 1891...
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    British sailors who died during the British Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863. The British Court for Japan, under the British Supreme Court for China and...
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    Edmund Grimani Hornby (category British Supreme Court for China judges)
    Constantinople and British Supreme Court for China and Japan. (Hornby had a nephew, Edmund Hornby Grimani, who also had a career in China with the Chinese Maritime...
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    of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan. Later they were treated as a judge of the Kanagawa Consular Court. In 1879 a British Court for Japan...
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    that date British subjects in Japan were subject to Japanese laws instead of British laws. The jurisdiction of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan...
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    McNeil QC (1899–1982) served as the last Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China from 1940 to 1942. He also served as the Chairman of the Hong...
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    serving British Consular Officer in Kobe has a large grave in the cemetery. George French, the Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan...
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    The Supreme Court of Singapore is a set of courts in Singapore, comprising the Court of Appeal and the High Court. It hears both civil and criminal matters...
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  • comedian[citation needed] Sir Peter Grain, former Chief Judge of the British Supreme Court for China[citation needed] Ulrika Jonsson – television presenter[citation...
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    Gilbert Walter King (category British Supreme Court for China judges)
    1937) was a British judge who served in China. His last position before retirement was as Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China. King was...
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  • United Kingdom Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson – Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Corea John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice – former Leader of...
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    North China Daily News. The North-China Herald was also the gazette (official record) of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and the British Consulate...
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    Skinner Turner (category British Supreme Court for China judges)
    was a British judge who served in Kenya, Uganda, Siam and China. His last position was as the Chief Judge of the British Supreme Court for China from 1921...
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