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corpus order. Kwok then sued
Pauncefote for damages for false imprisonment under the Habeas Corpus Act. Kwok almost won with the British jury finding 4–3 in Kwok's favour. Because a majority of five was needed to find in Kwok's favour the verdict was treated as a verdict for Pauncefote. In 1874, Pauncefote was appointed
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ordered his release on the basis that Kwok was entitled to take any necessary steps to secure his freedom. Pauncefote, as
Attorney General of Hong Kong, then had Kwok re-arrested to be tried for piracy. Smale again ordered Kwok's release on the basis the second arrest breached the first habeas
440:. In 1871, Kwok A Sing, a coolie on board a French ship the Nouvelle Penelope which had sailed from Macau, killed the master and took over the ship. Kwok was arrested in Hong Kong to be extradited to China. Kwok made a habeas corpus application seeking his release. Chief Justice
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and would be the last to use that title after the name changed to
British ambassador to the United States , an office that was upgraded to that of Ambassador to the United States in 1893. Elevated to the peerage as Baron Pauncefote in 1899, he died in office in 1902.
318:(no apparent relation to the Smith bankers). His father (who in 1809 assumed the surname of "Pauncefote" in lieu of his patronymic) was the grandson of John Smith (born 1716), next younger brother of
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Light Cavalry, but never took up his post, instead being
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Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs
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Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria
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Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
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473:in 1876. Having been made Knight Commander of the
366:Julian Pauncefote as Attorney-General of Hong Kong
931:. No. 36809. London. 2 July 1902. p. 1.
481:(CB) the following year, Pauncefote was promoted
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