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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1833–1876

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1833–1876 Its Origins, Structure and Development

Name: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1833–1876
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521085595
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Author: P Howell
ISBN: 9780521085595

By P Howell

Cambridge University Press October 2008

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ISBN-13: 9780521085595
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2008
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In the nineteenth century, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the supreme appellate tribunal for the British Empire, held sway over the lives, liberties and property of more than a quarter of the world's inhabitants, for it had the duty of hearing and determining appeals from some 150 colonial, Indian, Admiralty, Vice-Admiralty, prize, ecclesiastical and consular jurisdictions.

It also had to dispose of certain patent and copyright matters and appeals from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and was obliged to hear and report on 'any... other matter whatsoever' that the Crown might think fit to refer to it. This remarkable court could hear every kind of cause, international, constitutional, civil or criminal, and, in contrast to the supreme appellate tribunals which have served other empires, it had to construe and apply many different systems of law.

Contents:: 1. Introduction;
2. The creation of the Judicial Committee and the early development of its constitution;
3. The regulation of overseas appeals, 1833–1876;
4. The Judicial Committee in operation;
5. Appraisals and conclusions.