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	Privy Council of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the latter case, the Privy Council—together with the Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, the Lord Mayor of London, the Aldermen of the City of London and representatives of Commonwealth nations—makes a proclamation declaring the accession of the new Sovereign.
		Within the United Kingdom, the Crown-in-Council hears appeals from ecclesiastical courts, the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports, prize courts and the Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, appeals against schemes of the Church Commissioners and appeals under certain Acts of Parliament (eg the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975).
		The Privy Council is one of the four principal councils of the Sovereign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom (2489 words)

	Privy council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish Privy Council was abolished in 1922, when the Irish Free State separated from the United Kingdom; it was succeeded by the Privy Council for Northern Ireland, which became dormant after the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972.
		Privy Council decisions are not binding on courts in England and but as the judges are usually the same judges who sit in the House of Lords, the decisions are considered highly persuasive.
		Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (United Kingdom).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Privy_Council (432 words)

	Department for Constitutional Affairs - Consultation Paper - A New Supreme Court for the United Kingdom
		Constitution Unit Lecture in May 2002, in which he said "Our object is plain enough: to ensure that our supreme court is so structured and equipped as best to fulfil its functions and to command the confidence of the country in the changed world in which we live".
		The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in addition to its overseas and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, considers questions as to whether the devolved administrations, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly are acting within their legal powers.
		Other Privy Counsellors who are or have been senior judges of courts within the United Kingdom are also members; this includes past and present members of the Courts of Appeal of England and Wales and Northern Ireland and of the Inner House of the Court of Session in Scotland.
	www.dca.gov.uk /consult/supremecourt/index.htm (11189 words)

	CURRAN, JOHN PHILPOT. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was defense lawyer for the leaders of the United Irishmen after the 1798 rebellion.
		Subsequently he sat in the privy council of the United Kingdom.
		His daughter, Sarah, was in love with Robert Emmet, who was captured and hanged when he came to Dublin to visit her.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/cu/Curran-J.html (104 words)

	The abolition or retention of the Privy Council as the final Court of Appeal for New Zealand
		Appeal from the Court of Appeal of New Zealand to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is in constitutional theory appeal to Her Majesty The Queen in Council.
		The reform of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council may yet occur, not because New Zealand decides to abolish appeals- though a significant number of its cases are heard from this country- but because constitutional changes in the United Kingdom may require this.
		The permutations of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom are as likely to lead to the reform or abolition of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,(37) as the politically-motivated desire of the present Government are to end the right of appeals from New Zealand.
	www.geocities.com /noelcox/Privy_Council_Commonwealth_Lawyer.htm (2337 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - The Privy Council is right - Friday \| July 9, 2004
		Not so, the Privy Council has said in the case of Lambert Watson in his appeal against sentencing to death for murdering his common-law wife and their daughter.
		By this decision, the Privy Council brings Jamaican law in line with what obtains in the United States of America and other countries where, after a guilty verdict, there is a subsequent penalty hearing.
		Our concern is that the decision of the Privy Council be seen as morally correct and that it should not be used to confuse the public that the Privy Council has ruled against hanging in all cases.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040709/cleisure/cleisure1.html (495 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Privy Council Decision should not halt Caribbean Court
		By the same token, the Privy Council decision is being claimed as a victory for those who hold to the view that the Caribbean legal and judicial system is not yet mature enough to allow for a truly independent court of final appeal that could withstand local pressure and interference from whatever source, particularly governments.
		The five law lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council who handed down their judgment on 3rd February were keen to point out that what they considered was “whether the procedure adopted in enacting the legislation complied with the requirements laid down in the (Jamaica) constitution”.
		But the matter of replacing the Privy Council with the CCJ will have to be postponed in Jamaica until the political parties and other stakeholders in the society are convinced of the safeguards of the CCJ.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/02/08/sanders.shtml (1378 words)

	National Council of Women of Canada
		The International Council of Women (ICW) had been founded a few years earlier, in 1888, at a meeting in Washington, D.C. The idea of a Canadian Council was developed at the ICW World's Congress of Representative Women, meeting in Chicago in May 1893.
		In 1929, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, then the highest court of appeal for Canadians, brought down its landmark decision-declaring women to be persons.
		In the thirties, the Council was involved with the study and prevention of the spread of venereal diseases.
	www.ncwc.ca /aboutUs_history.html (1151 words)

	Bahamas - Thematic Reports
		The Special Rapporteur (SR) also recalled commentary in previous reports referring to the 1993 judgement of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in which it was held that awaiting the execution of a death sentence for five years after it had been handed down constituted in itself cruel and inhuman punishment.
		The report notes that, in October 1996, the Privy Council ruled that, in the Bahamas, it may be considered cruel or inhuman to execute a prisoner who has been on death row for more than 3½ years.
		According to the information received, the Privy Council was of the view that the five-year ruling was not to be regarded as a fixed limit applicable in all cases, but as a norm from which decisions may depart if circumstances require.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/vol4/bahamastr.htm (312 words)

	St. Lucia JUDICIAL SYSTEM
		The highest judicial body is the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
		Prior to 2003, in exceptional cases, appeals were carried to the UK Privy Council.
		On 9 June 2003, Caribbean leaders met in Kingston, Jamaica, to ratify a treaty to establish the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/St-Lucia-JUDICIAL-SYSTEM.html (220 words)

	Ganja in Jamaica News - 1998/11/20 - Jamaica Gleaner
		However, in their appeal to the United Kingdom Privy Council, their lawyers, Ian Wilkinson and Garth McBean, submitted the affidavits relating to the fresh evidence.
		The Privy Council reviewed the matter and sent back the case for the Court of Appeal to determine whether the evidence was credible.
		It was the second time within two years that the United Kingdom Privy Council had remitted cases to the Court of Appeal to hear fresh evidence.
	www.rism.org /isg/dlp/ganja/news/gj_jg_19981120_1.html (510 words)

	Bahamas Government Information
		The Privy Council of the United Kingdom serves as the highest appellate court.
		For decades, the white-dominated United Bahamian Party (UBP) ruled The Bahamas, then a dependency of the United Kingdom, while a group of influential white merchants, known as the "Bay Street Boys," dominated the local economy.
		The Bahamas maintains an embassy in the United States at 2220 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel: 202-319-2660) and Consulates General in New ork at 767 Third Ave., 9th Floor, New York, NY 10017 (tel: 212-421-6925/27), and in Miami at Suite 818, Ingraham Building, 25 SE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33131 (tel: 305-373-6295/96).
	www.traveldocs.com /bs/govern.htm (600 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - FTC seeks Privy Council decision - Wednesday \| February 28, 2001
		THE FAIR Trading Commission (FTC) will be asking the United Kingdom Privy Council to decide whether it has control over the Jamaica Stock Exchange.
		On Monday, the Court of Appeal granted the FTC leave to appeal to the United Kingdom Privy Council ruling against a Court of Appeal ruling last month.
		The FTC was granted conditional leave to appeal and is to take the necessary steps within the next 90 days to pursue the appeal.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20010228/news/news5.html (246 words)

	Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In addition, the Special Rapporteur has been informed that new members joining the Council of Europe are required to sign within one year and ratify within three years after joining the organization, the Sixth Optional Protocol to the European Convention, and are also required to place a moratorium on executions immediately thereafter.
		He welcomes decisions such as the judgement of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, wherein the execution of a death sentence five years after it had been passed was found to constitute cruel and inhuman punishment.
		In this context, reference should also be made to the International Tribunals established under Security Council resolutions 808 (1993) and 955 (1994) for certain serious crimes, including violations of the right to life, committed in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda.The Special Rapporteur welcomes these initiatives.
	www.unhchr.ch /html/menu2/7/b/execut/exe_issu.htm (2006 words)

	Guyana Caribbean Politics
		Thus the Constitution and not, as in the United Kingdom, Parliament is (save in respect of Chapter III of the Constitution) to be sovereign.
		As already recorded, Dr Barnett for the appellants accepted in argument that section 110 of the Constitution, providing for appeal to the Privy Council, could have been repealed by the votes of a majority of all the members of each House, since section 110 is not entrenched.
		It remains to consider whether the provision abolishing the right of appeal to the Privy Council may be severed from the other provisions of the three Acts and given effect if the other provisions are not.
	www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com /csme-ccj/ccj_council.html (3267 words)

	Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law
		Born in the United Kingdom on 15th June 1923.
		Sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1979 and sat as a member of its Judicial Committee.
		Appointed in 1992 by the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Governments as Chairman of Strand Two of the Talks on Northern Ireland.
	www.apcml.org /ppl_ninian_stephen.php (313 words)

	Delford Gardener v. Jamaica, Case 11.321, Report No. 7/97, Inter-Am.C.H.R.,OEA/Ser.L/V/II.95 Doc. 7 rev. at 466 (1997).
		The delay and uncertainty has increased for him, the suffering inevitably associated with the death sentence to the point where he has been exposed to an unnecessarily prolonged and cruel experience of mental anguish in anticipation of his punishment whilst located on death row.
		If the appellate procedure enables the prisoner to prolong the appellate hearings over a period of years, the fault is to be attributed to the appellate system that permits such delays and not the prisoner who takes advantage of it.
		The author is entitled to appeal to the judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cases/1996/jamaica7-97.htm (2739 words)

	Jamaica 11.321 - Admissible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Petitioner further argued that the Judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (ultimate Court of Appeal for Jamaica) in Pratt v.
		Second, in the Government of Jamaica's Reply to the petition dated February 22, 1995, it argued that "the Ministry wishes to assert that the communication is inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies as required by Article 46 (1)(a) of the Convention.
		Gardener has pursued and exhausted the domestic remedies in Jamaica because he appealed both to the Court of Appeal in Jamaica and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, United Kingdom.
	www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/96eng/Jamaica11321.htm (2779 words)

	Sir Dennis Byron Appointed to Privy Council
		The title of Privy Counsellor is the latest to be conferred on Sir Dennis in recent times.
		Although the Privy Council is a United Kingdom Institution, Members are appointed from some Commonwealth countries.
		Membership of the Privy Council is for life, and all Privy Counsellors are entitled to be styled “The Right Honourable”.
	www.stlucia.gov.lc /pr2004/july/sir_dennis_byron_appointed_to_privy_council.htm (216 words)

	NATO Who's who?: NATO SecGen Lord Robertson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1997-1999 and Member of Parliament for Hamilton and Hamilton South from 1978-1999.
		George Islay MacNeill Robertson was born in 1946 in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland, and educated at Dunoon Grammar School and the University of Dundee.
		He was appointed a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council in May 1997.
	www.nato.int /cv/secgen/robert-e.htm (461 words)

	Brooklyn Law School: Students
		Currently, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom serves as the ultimate arbiter of legal disputes that arise in most Member States of the Caribbean Community.
		The Judicial Committee Act of 1833 formally established the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
		The Judicial Committee’s authority developed from “the prerogative right of the Sovereign as the fountain head of all justice to entertain appeals from the courts in her dominions.” Since the middle of the 17th century, the Judicial Committee has served as a court to hear appeals from British territories overseas.
	www.brooklaw.edu /students/journals/bjil/bjil27ii_hamilton.php (2488 words)

	Ganja in Jamaica News - 1998/11/03 - Jamaica Gleaner
		Lensley Wolfe was hopping mad yesterday when the constitutional motion brought by former Resident Magistrate Norma Von Cork had to be put off because the attorney-at-law from the Attorney General's Department who is assigned to the case is appearing before the United Kingdom Privy Council.
		He added that it was a difficult matter to get three judges together to sit in the Constitutional Court.
		Justice Karl Harrison that Lennox Campbell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, was at the United Kingdom Privy Council.
	www.rism.org /isg/dlp/ganja/news/gj_jg_19981103_1.html (483 words)

	Judicial Committee
		The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the court of final appeal for the UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies, and for those Commonwealth countries that have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council or, in the case of Republics, to the Judicial Committee.
		It is also the court of final appeal for determining "devolution issues" under the United Kingdom devolution statutes of 1998 and it has certain other domestic jurisdiction within the United Kingdom.
		The Judicial Committee sits in the Privy Council Chamber in Downing Street.
	www.privycouncil.gov.uk /output/page5.asp (134 words)

	Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Court of Appeals is the highest appellate court in Jamaica.
		Under certain circumstances, cases may be appealed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
		The center-right National Democratic Movement (NDM) was established in 1995 and the populist United Peoples Party (UPP) in 2001; neither has links with any particular trade union and both are marginal movements.
	www.n2geo.org /countries/politics.php?country_id=115 (536 words)

	City of Toronto: Access, Equity and Human Rights Awards - Constance E. Hamilton Award
		Five women petitioners from Alberta asked the Government of Canada to allow an appeal of the judgement to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, which was then the highest court of appeal on questions related to Canadian law.
		On October 18, 1929, the Judicial Committee unanimously reversed the judgement of the Supreme Court of Canada.
		The Privy Council decision to declare women "persons" under section 24 of the Constitution Act, 1867 not only enabled women to be appointed senators but also reinforced the right of women in Canada to participate in all aspects of public life.
	www.toronto.ca /civicawards/hamilton_decision.htm (220 words)

	Privy Council hearing Trinidad press freedom case :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		News: Privy Council hearing Trinidad press freedom case
		Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 12:14 PM Lawyers representing two Trinidadian media companies will today continue arguing before the Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council, an appeal by two journalists who maintain that a court gag order on a trial in that country in 1996 was a breach of press freedom...
		The journalists - Ken Ali and Sharmaine Baboolal - had defied the gag order and published the guilty plea of murder accused Levi Morris, who brokered a deal with the state to give evidence against his one-time boss, Dole Chadee, and his gang of killers.
	www.ttgapers.com /Article256.html (316 words)

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