Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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1526 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII the Union had full powers. The resolution in favour of an extension of the legislative power of the Dominions was passed therefore only by New Zealand and Canada, and the Imperial Government made no pledge that it could do anything substantial to comply with the wishes of the Dominions in this regard. (4) The Imperial Court of Appeal On June 12 the important question before the Conference was that of the Imperial Court of Appeal, resolutions having been proposed by the Commonwealth of Australia in favour of the transfer to an Imperial Appeal Court of the powers exercised by the House of Lords in respect of appeals from the United Kingdom Courts and the powers exercised by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ; and by the Government of New Zealand, that no Imperial Court of Appeal could be satisfactory which did not include judicial representatives of the overseas Dominions in view of the diversity of laws enacted, and the differing public policies affecting legal interpretation in those Dominions. In support of the resolution of the Commonwealth, Mr. Batchelor 1 thought that it was anomalous to have two final Courts of Appeal, that the existence of two such Courts gave a possi- bility of conflicting judgements, while the similarity of the personnel of the Courts was an argument in favour of their merger. He criticized also the system under which the members of the Judicial Committee did not give individual judgements, and he much preferred the system by which individual judgements were given. Lord Loreburn? then explained the nature of the existing Courts and their juris- diction. The House of Lords comprised the Lord Chancellor, the four Lords of Appeal with any previous Chancellor, and any Peer who had held high judicial office, and it heard all the appeals from the United Kingdom. Three members formed a quorum, but the Court usually sat with at least four. The Judicial Committee had heard all the appeals from Colonial and Dominion Courts, from the Channel Islands. the Isle Cd. 5745, pp. 214-6. 2 Tbid., pp. 216 seq.

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