Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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Established | 14 August 1833 |
Jurisdiction | List of countries
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Location | Middlesex Guildhall, City of Westminster, London, England |
Coordinates | 51°30′01.3″N 0°07′41.3″W / 51.500361°N 0.128139°W |
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Website | jcpc |
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for the Crown Dependencies, the British Overseas Territories, some Commonwealth countries and a few institutions in the United Kingdom. Established on 14 August 1833 to hear appeals formerly heard by the King-in-Council,[1] the Privy Council formerly acted as the court of last resort for the entire British Empire, other than for the United Kingdom itself.[2][3]
Formally a statutory committee of
History
The origins of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council can be traced back to the curia regis, or royal council. In theory, the King was the fount of justice, and petitions for redress of wrongs arising from his courts were addressed to him. That power was gradually taken over by Parliament (which evolved out of the curia regis) within England, but the King-in-Council (which also evolved out of the curia regis) retained jurisdiction to hear petitions from the King's non-English possessions, such as the Channel Islands and, later on, from England's colonies.[2]
The task of hearing appeals was given to a series of short-lived committees of the Privy Council. In 1679, appellate jurisdiction was given to the Board of Trade, before being transferred to a standing Appeals Committee of the Privy Council in 1696.[4] By the early nineteenth century, the growth of the British Empire, which had greatly expanded the appellate jurisdiction of the Privy Council (despite the loss of appeals from the American colonies), had put great strains on the existing arrangements.[4] In particular, the Appeals Committee had to hear cases arising from a variety of different legal systems in the colonies, such as Hindu law, with which its members were unfamiliar.[4] Another serious problem was that the Appeals Committee was technically a committee of the whole of the entire Privy Council, of which a minimum of three were required for a quorum.[4] Since many members of the Privy Council were not lawyers, all members of the Appeals Committee had equal votes, and there was no requirement that any of the Privy Counsellors actually hearing a particular appeal had to be a lawyer, it became possible for certain parties to appeal to secure desired judgments by persuading nonlawyer Privy Counsellors to attend the hearings on their appeals.[4] For these reasons, the Appeals Committee fell into disrepute among better-informed lawyers and judges in the colonies.[4]
In 1833, at the instigation of Lord Brougham, the Lord Chancellor, Parliament passed the Judicial Committee Act 1833. The Act established a statutory committee of the Privy Council, known as The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to hear appeals to the King-in-Council. In addition to colonial appeals, later legislation gave the Judicial Committee appellate jurisdiction over a range of miscellaneous matters, such as patents, ecclesiastical matters, and prize suits.[2] At its height, the Judicial Committee was said to be the court of final appeal for over a quarter of the world.
In the twentieth century, the jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council shrank considerably, as British dominions established their own courts of final appeal and as British colonies became independent, although many retained appeals to the Privy Council post-independence. Canada abolished Privy Council appeals in 1949, India and South Africa in 1950, and New Zealand in 2003. Currently, eleven Commonwealth countries outside of the United Kingdom retain Privy Council appeals, in addition to various British and New Zealand territories. The Judicial Committee also retains jurisdiction over a small number of domestic matters in the United Kingdom, reduced by the creation of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2009.
Jurisdiction
Domestic jurisdiction
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The United Kingdom does not have a single highest national court; the Judicial Committee is the highest court of appeal in some cases, while in most others the highest court of appeal is the
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has jurisdiction in the following domestic matters:
- Appeals against schemes of the Church Commissioners (who control the estate of the Church of England).
- Appeals from the ecclesiastical courts (the Arches Court of Canterbury and the Chancery Court of York) in non-doctrinal faculty cases.
- Appeals from the High Court of Chivalry.[5]
- Appeals from the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports.
- Appeals from prize courts.
- Appeals from the Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.[6]
- Disputes under the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975.
Additionally, the government may (through the King) refer any issue to the committee for "consideration and report" under section 4 of the Judicial Committee Act 1833.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the court of final appeal for the
Prior to the coming into force of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the Privy Council was the court of last resort for devolution issues. On 1 October 2009 this jurisdiction was transferred to the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Authority of Privy Council decisions in domestic British courts
Judgments of the Judicial Committee are not generally
Overseas jurisdiction
The Judicial Committee holds jurisdiction in appeals from the following 32 jurisdictions (including eleven independent nations):
Jurisdiction removed
Judicial appeal of final resort has been assumed by other bodies in some current and former Commonwealth countries:
Country | Date | Abolishing statute | New court of final appeal | Notes |
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Irish Free State | 1933 | Constitution (Amendment No. 22) Act 1933 | Supreme Court | The on 18 April 1949 when the Republic of Ireland was declared.
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Canada | 1949 | An Act to Amend the Supreme Court Act, S.C. 1949 (2nd sess.), c. 37, s. 3. | Supreme Court | Criminal appeals ended in 1933.[11] |
India | 1949 | Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act, 1949 | Federal Court | Replaced by the Supreme Court on 28 January 1950. |
South Africa | 1950 | Privy Council Appeals Act, 1950 | Supreme Court Appellate Division | Replaced by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 1997.
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Pakistan | 1950 | Privy Council (Abolition of Jurisdiction) Act, 1950 | Federal Court |
Replaced by the Supreme Court under the 1956 Constitution. |
Ghana | 1960 | Constitution (Consequential Provisions) Act 1960 | Supreme Court | |
Tanganyika | 1962 | Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1962 | East African Court of Appeal | [12] |
Nigeria | 1963 | 1963 Constitution | Supreme Court | |
Kenya | 1964 | Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Act, 1965[13] | East African Court of Appeal | |
Malawi |
1965 | Constitution of Malawi (Amendment) Act, 1965 | Supreme Court of Appeal of Malawi | |
Uganda | 1966 | 1966 Constitution | East African Court of Appeal | Criminal and civil appeals ended in 1964.[14] |
Australia | 1968 | Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968[15] | High Court | Abolished appeals of cases originating in federal and territory courts. |
Lesotho | 1970 | Court of Appeal and High Court Order 1970 | Court of Appeal of Lesotho | [16][17] |
Sierra Leone | 1971 | 1971 Constitution[18] | Supreme Court | |
Ceylon | 1971 | Court of Appeal Act No. 44 of 1971[19] | Court of Appeal | |
Malta | 1972 | Constitution of Malta (Amendment) Act, 1972[20] | Constitutional Court of Malta | |
Guyana | 1973 | Constitution (Amendment) Act 1973[21] | Court of Appeal of Guyana | Criminal and civil appeals ended in 1970.[22] Since 2005 the Caribbean Court of Justice hears appeals from Guyana's Court of Appeal. |
Botswana | 1973 | Judicial Committee (Abolition of Appeals) Act 1973[23] | Court of Appeal | |
Malaysia | 1985 | Constitution (Amendment) Act 1983 Courts of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1984 |
Supreme Court |
The Supreme Court was called the Federal Court until the 1985 change and reverted to the old name in 1994. |
Australia – state courts |
1986 | Australia Act 1986 | High Court | Abolished appeals of cases originating in state courts. |
Fiji | 1987 | Fiji Judicature Decree 1987[24] | Court of Appeal | |
Singapore | 1994 | Judicial Committee (Repeal) Act 1994 | Court of Appeal | |
The Gambia | 1998 | 1997 Constitution of the Gambia | Supreme Court | A restructure of the Gambian judiciary by Yahya Jammeh, which made the Supreme Court of The Gambia the highest court instead of being below the Court of Appeal of the Gambia as was the case under the 1970 Constitution of the Gambia. |
New Zealand | 2004 | Supreme Court Act 2003 | Supreme Court | |
Barbados | 2005 | Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2003 | Caribbean Court of Justice | |
Belize | 2010 | Belize Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 2010 | ||
Dominica | 2015 | Constitution of Dominica (Amendment) Act, 2014 | ||
Saint Lucia | 2023 | Constitution of Saint Lucia (Amendment) Act, 2023[25] |
The following countries or territories did not retain the jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee at the time of independence or of the transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom:
Composition
Members
The following are members of the Judicial Committee:
- Justices of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary)
- Other Lords of Appeal (senior judges) from within the United Kingdom
- Privy Counsellors who are (or have been) judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland
- Judges of certain superior courts in Commonwealth nations, who are appointed Privy Counsellors for the purpose of sitting in the JCPC
The bulk of the Committee's work is done by the Supreme Court Justices, who are paid to work full-time in both the Supreme Court and the Privy Council. Overseas judges may not sit when certain UK domestic matters are being heard, but will often sit when appeals from their own countries are being heard.
Registrars
- Henry Reeve, 1853–1887[26]
- Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham, 1887–1896[27]
- Sir Thomas Raleigh, 1896–1899[28]
- Edward Stanley Hope, KCB, 1899–1909[29]
- Sir Charles Henry Lawrence Neish KBE CB, 1909–1934[30][31]
- Colin Smith MVO OBE, 1934–1940
- Lieutenant-Colonel John Dallas Waters, CB, DSO, 1940–1954[32][33]
- Aylmer J. N. Paterson, 1954–1963
- Leslie Upton CBE, 1963–1966
- Eric Mills, 1966–1983[34]
- D. H. O. Owen, 1983–1998
- John Watherston, 1998–2005
- Mary Macdonald, 2005–2010
- Louise di Mambro, 2011–2022
- Laura Angus 2022-Present[35]
- Celia Cave 2023-Present[36]
Until 1904 the Registrar of the Admiralty court was also Registrar to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in ecclesiastical and maritime causes.[37]
Procedure
Most appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are formally appeals to "His Majesty in Council". Appeals from Brunei are formally to the
After hearing an appeal, the panel of judges which heard the case (known as "the Board") issues its decision in writing. For appeals to His Majesty in Council, the Board submits its decision to the King as advice for his consideration. By convention, the advice is always accepted by the King and given effect via an Order in Council.
Historically, the Judicial Committee could only give a unanimous report, but since the Judicial Committee (Dissenting Opinions) Order 1966, dissenting opinions have been allowed.
The Judicial Committee is not bound by its own previous decisions, but may depart from them in exceptional circumstances if following its previous decisions would be unjust or contrary to public policy.[38]
Location
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is based in London. From its establishment to 2009, it mainly met in the
In recent years, the Judicial Committee has occasionally sat outside of London. Between 2005 and 2010 it sat twice in Mauritius and three times in the Bahamas.
Decline in Commonwealth appeals
Initially, all Commonwealth realms and their territories maintained a right of appeal to the Privy Council. Many of those Commonwealth countries that became republics, or which had indigenous monarchies, preserved the Judicial Committee's jurisdiction by agreement with the United Kingdom. However, retention of a right of appeal to a court located overseas, made up mostly of British judges who may be out of tune with local values, has often come to be seen as incompatible with notions of an independent nation's sovereign status, and so a number of Commonwealth members have ended the right of appeal from their jurisdiction. The Balfour Declaration of 1926, while not considered to be lex scripta, severely limited the conditions under which the Judicial Committee might hear cases:[39]
From these discussions it was clear that it was no part of the policy of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain that questions affecting judicial appeals should be determined otherwise than in accordance with the wishes of the part of the Empire primarily affected
Australia
In 1901, the Constitution of Australia limited appeals from the new federal High Court of Australia to the Privy Council, by prohibiting appeals on constitutional matters unless leave is granted by the High Court on inter se questions. Appeals on non-constitutional matters were not prohibited, but the federal Parliament of Australia had the power to legislate to limit them. The right of appeal from federal courts (including territory supreme courts) was abolished through the Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968.[40][41] Appeals from state courts, a continuation of the right to appeal decisions of colonial courts before 1901, continued, until they were also abolished by the Australia Act 1986, which was enacted by both the UK and Australian parliaments, on the request of all the state governments. The Australian Constitution retains the provision allowing the High Court of Australia to permit appeals to the Privy Council on inter se questions. However, the High Court has stated that it will not give such permission, that the jurisdiction to do so "has long since been spent", and that it is obsolete.[42]
Canada
Canada created its own
In 1949, all appeals to the Privy Council were abolished, but prior to this, there were several factors that served to limit the effectiveness of measures to reduce appeals:
- Appeals of rulings from the various provincial courts of appeal could still be made directly to the Privy Council, without first going to the Supreme Court of Canada.
- In Cushing v. Dupuy (1885),[44]the Privy Council held that the ability to grant special leave to appeal to the Privy Council was unaffected, as the prerogative of the Crown cannot be taken away except by express words.
- In Nadan v The King (1926),[45] the Privy Council ruled that the provision of the Criminal Code barring appeals to the Privy Council was ultra vires of the Parliament of Canada as it was contrary to s. 2 of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865.
Nadan, together with the
... autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
With that Declaration and its statutory confirmation in the
The JCPC played a controversial role in the evolution of Canadian federalism in that, whereas some Fathers of Confederation in negotiating the union of the British North American colonies against the backdrop of the American Civil War wished to ensure a strong central government vis-à-vis relatively weak provinces, appeals to the JCPC in constitutional matters progressively shifted the balance in favour of the provinces.[49] While a few commentators have suggested that Canadian First Nations retain the right to appeal to the Privy Council because their treaties predate their relationship to Canada, the JCPC has not entertained any such appeal since 1867 and the dominant view is that no such appeal right exists.[50]
Caribbean Community
The nations of the
Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates
The then President of the
On 18 December 2006, the Judicial Committee made history when for the first time in more than 170 years it ventured outside London, holding a five-day sitting in the Bahamas. Lords Bingham, Brown, Carswell, and Scott, and Baroness Hale of Richmond, travelled to the Bahamas for the special sitting at the invitation of Dame Joan Sawyer, then the President of the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas;[61] the Committee returned to the Bahamas in December 2007 for a second sitting. On the latter occasion, Lords Hope, Rodger, Walker, and Mance, and Sir Christopher Rose, heard several cases. At the end of the sitting, Lord Hope indicated that there may be future sittings of the Committee in the Bahamas,[62] and the Committee has indeed sat in the Bahamas again, in 2009.[63]
The 2018 Antiguan constitutional referendum saw the proposal to replace the JCPC with the CCJ rejected by a 52.04% majority.
On 28 February 2023, the parliament of Saint Lucia approved the Constitution of St Lucia Amendment Bill 2023, which would replace the JCPC with the CCJ. [64]
An injunction against Saint Lucia's accession to the CCJ was filed on 3 March 2023 against the bill in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the High Court of Justice of Saint Lucia, and is currently pending. [65]
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
The Gambia
The Gambia retained the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council under the Gambia Independence Act 1964, even after The Gambia became a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations in April 1970 under Sir Dawda Jawara. Appeals were still taken to the JCPC from 1994 to 1998, when Yahya Jammeh, the then dictator and President of the Gambia decided to restructure the Gambian judiciary under the 1997 Constitution of the Gambia to replace the JCPC with the Supreme Court of the Gambia.
The last case from The Gambia to the JCPC was West Coast Air Limited v. Gambia Civil Aviation Authority and Others UKPC 39 (15 September 1998).[68]
Grenada
In 2016, there was a proposal in the 2016 Grenadian constitutional referendum to terminate appeals from Grenada to the JCPC and to replace the JCPC with the Caribbean Court of Justice. This was rejected by a 56.73% majority, which means the JCPC remains Grenada's highest court.
Another referendum, the 2018 Grenadian constitutional referendum also rejected terminating appeals to the JCPC by a 55.2% majority.
Guyana
Guyana retained the right of appeal to the Privy Council until the government of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham passed the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Termination of Appeals) Act 1970 and the Constitution (Amendment) Act 1973.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong's court system changed following the
Decisions of the Privy Council on Hong Kong appeals before 1 July 1997 remain binding on the courts of Hong Kong. This accords with the principle of continuity of the legal system enshrined in Article 8 of the Basic Law. Decisions of the Privy Council on non-Hong Kong appeals are of persuasive authority only. Such decisions were not binding on the courts in Hong Kong under the doctrine of precedent before 1 July 1997 and are not binding today. Decisions of the House of Lords before 1 July 1997 stand in a similar position. It is of the greatest importance that the courts of Hong Kong should derive assistance from overseas jurisprudence, particularly from the final appellate courts of other common law jurisdictions. This is recognised by Article 84 of the Basic Law.[69][70]
Pursuant to Article 158 of the Basic Law, the power of final interpretation of the Basic Law is vested not in the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong but in the
India
India retained the right of appeal from the Federal Court of India to the Privy Council after the establishment of the Dominion of India. Following the replacement of the Federal Court with the Supreme Court of India in January 1950, the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act 1949 came into effect, ending the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Irish Free State
The right of appeal to the Privy Council was provided for in the
In
Jamaica
In May 2015, the Jamaican
Malaysia
Malaysia abolished appeals to the Privy Council in criminal and constitutional matters in 1978,[77] and in civil matters in 1984.[78]
New Zealand
New Zealand was the last of the original dominions to remove appeals to the Privy Council from its legal system. Proposals to abolish appeals to the Privy Council in New Zealand were first put forward in the early 1980s.[79]
The Privy Council's respect for local decisions was noted by
If Archer v. Cutler is properly to be regarded as a decision based on considerations peculiar to New Zealand, it is highly improbable that their Lordships would think it right to impose their own interpretation of the law, thereby contradicting the unanimous conclusions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on a matter of local significance. If, however, the principle of Archer v. Cutler, if it be correct, must be regarded as having general application throughout all jurisdictions based on the common law, because it does not depend on local considerations, their Lordships could not properly treat the unanimous view of the courts of New Zealand as being necessarily decisive.[80]
In October 2003, with respect to all cases heard by the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, New Zealand law was changed to abolish appeals to the Privy Council, after the end of 2003. The old system was replaced by the Supreme Court of New Zealand. In 2008, Prime Minister John Key ruled out any abolition of the Supreme Court and return to the Privy Council.[81]
However, judgment on the last appeal from New Zealand to be heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was not delivered until 3 March 2015.[82][83][84]
Pakistan
The
Rhodesia
Despite the Rhodesian Constitution of 1965 coming into effect as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, appeals continued to be accepted by the Privy Council as late as 1969 due to the fact that under international law, Rhodesia remained a British colony until gaining its independence as Zimbabwe in April 1980.
Singapore
Singapore abolished Privy Council appeals in all cases save those involving the death penalty, or in civil cases where the parties had agreed to such a right of appeal, in 1989. The remaining rights of appeal were abolished in April 1994.
One notable case in Singapore where an appeal against the death sentence was allowed by the Privy Council was a murder case that occurred in Pulau Ubin between 22 and 23 April 1972. In this case, Mohamed Yasin bin Hussein, who was 19 at the time of the murder, was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering and raping a 58-year-old elderly woman named Poon Sai Imm, while his 25-year-old accomplice Harun bin Ripin went to ransack the elderly woman's house for items to rob (Harun, who also stood trial for murder together with Yasin, was instead sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and received 12 strokes of the cane for a lesser charge of robbery at night). The Privy Council found that there was no evidence to show that Yasin had intended to cause death or any fatal bodily injury when he caused the fatal rib fractures on Poon while forcibly performing sexual intercourse with the struggling victim. As such, they found him guilty of committing a rash/negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide and sentenced him to 2 years' imprisonment. As an aftermath of this appeal, Yasin was brought back to court to be charged with rape, and he was eventually jailed for another 8 years for attempted rape of the elderly victim.[85]
Another notable case heard by the Privy Council was the case of
South Africa
South Africa abolished the right of appeal to the Privy Council from the Appellate Division of the then Supreme Court of South Africa in 1950 under the terms of the Privy Council Appeals Act, 1950.
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