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1
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What type of power did Tony Blair use to take the UK to war in Iraq in 2003 or Margaret Thatcher sending the task force to the Falkland Islands?

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Prerogative power of the crown

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Do PMs need parliamentary consent to commit British troops as a matter of law?

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No

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What is the Dicey definition of prerogative power?

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  • Discretionary/arbitrary authority left in the crown
  • Every act the executive government can lawfully do without requiring authority of an act of parliament
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Which courts are the arbiters of the existence and extent of a claimed prerogative power?

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Administrative Court and upwards

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Have all of the old monarchical powers eroded?

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No, some significant ones remain

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6
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Who exercises powers of the monarch?

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Government on behalf of the monarch

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What lead to the Miller case?

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Government’s attempts to trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval

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What was the effect of the HoL decision in GCHQ?

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extended reviewability of prerogative powers

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9
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What is a constitutional monarchy?

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Where monarch is head of state but not political head of government and whose powers to govern are limited

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What powers is most government business conducted under?

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Statute

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In areas where royal prerogative still retains significance, how is the power usually governed?

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By convention

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What are the ministerial prerogative powers relating to?

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  • Judicial system
  • Foreign affairs
  • Defence of the realm
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What is the home secretary’s judicial prerogative power?

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To pardon those convicted of criminal offences prosecuted by the crown (prerogative of mercy)

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What are the foreign affairs prerogative powers?

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  • Grant/revoke passports
  • Recognition of other soveriegn states/representatives
  • Making/ratifying treaties
  • Governance of British Overseas Territories
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What is defence of the realm?

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Armed forces, war and times of emergency

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What are the monarch’s prerogative powers on the advice of the PM?

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  • Appointing/removing ministers
  • Appointing PM
  • Assent
  • Creating peers/granting honours
  • Dissolve + prorogue parliament
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What are the crown’s legal prerogatives?

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  • Not bound by statute unless express/inferred
  • Not subject to contempt
  • personal immunity from prosecution or being sued for a wrongful act
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How can prerogative power be controlled?

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  • Public law (judicial review)
  • overriding effect of statute
  • political pressure
  • changes to convention over time
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Is prerogative power legitimised by parliament?

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No

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20
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How is the use of prerogative power primarily controlled?

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Through the courts

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Why does prerogative power have legal enforceability?

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Because it is recognised and accepted by courts through the common law.

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Who determines how and to what degree courts can control use of prerogative power?

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Judges

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What was the effect of the case of proclamations (1611)?

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  • royal prerogative = finite stock of power
  • crown power legitimated through common law
  • prerogative power couldn’t exist unless there was precedent
24
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What did Entick v Carrington confirm?

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There must be precendent in common law for a prerogative power to exist

25
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What is the review of the legality of prerogative power?

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Courts determining the scope of prerogative power

26
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What was the effect of the De Keyser case?

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Statutory power is superior to prerogative power

27
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What was the effect of the Fire Brigades Union case?

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Statutory takes primacy over prerogative powers even where statutory scheme hadn’t been implemented yet

28
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Why was the governmnet’s triggering of article 50 in Miller illegal?

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Because the effects were so significant, leading to notable change in the law of the land and individual rights

29
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What were the courts restricted in doing before GCHQ?

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Only adjudicate on whether government had a prerogative power/scope and limits not how they were exercised.

30
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What was the issue in GCHQ?

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Thatcher banning trade union membership at a government listening base

31
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What was the basis of the claim in GCHQ?

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legitimate expectation of being consutled before any notable changes in working conditions as had been the case for the past 4 decades

32
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What was the effect of GCHQ?

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All executive powers are reviewable, not just statutory

33
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What was the result of GCHQ for Thatcher?

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Use of power was lawful

34
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What are the areas of policy that would not be amenable to judicial process in the obiter of GCHQ?

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  • Treaties
  • Defence of the realm
  • Mercy
  • Honours
  • Disollution of Parliament
  • Appointing ministers
35
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What approach do judges apply where they are considering the substance of a prerogative power?

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Contextual

36
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What was the issue in Bentley and was it suitable for JR?

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Granting posthumous pardon (failure to consider different types of pardons), yes

36
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If the prerogative power is of higher policy, what will the degree of intensity of review be?

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Low

37
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What was the issue in Everett and was it suitable for JR?

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Refusal to grant passport, yes

38
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Are diplomatic relations a matter of low or high policy?

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High

39
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What was the outcome in Abassi?

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Unsuccessful however Court said if there had been no consideration of represenations, they would have ordered Foreign Office to make them.

40
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Is military action a matter of low or high policy?

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High

41
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What did the court decide in Smith, Ellis and Albutt?

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Doctrine of combat immunity should be construed narrowly

42
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What was the issue in Smith?

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Homosexuals being dismissed from military

43
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Was Smith justiciable?

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Yes

44
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What did the CoA say in Bancoult?

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The prerogative power of colonial governance enjoys no generic immunity from JR

45
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What was the outcome in Bancoult?

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Majority narrowly deferred to government

46
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What enshrined parliamentary sovereignty?

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Bill of Rights 1689
Acts of Settlement 1701

47
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Did monarchs still have political power after the 17/18th century?

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Yes, the country remained an oligarchy

48
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What are the three key concepts of Dicey’s theory of parliamentary sovereignty?

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  • Supreme lawmaking body
  • Can’t be bound by previous/bind future
  • no person may question validity of enactment of parliament
49
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What did the Canon Selwyn case shown about being the supreme lawmaking body?

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Parliament can pass legislation that laters part of the constitution

50
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Can Parliament pass legislation contrary to fundamental rights?

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Yes, subject to consequences

51
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Can Parliament pass legislation contrary to international law?

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Yes

52
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Can Parliament pass retrospective legislation?

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Yes

53
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What did Dicey mean by Parliament can’t be bound?

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No entrenchment

54
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What types of repeal are there?

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Express, implied

55
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What is express repeal?

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Legislation expressly states an intention that an earlier act should be replaced

56
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What is implied repeal?

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A new act is wholly/partially inconsistent with a previous act

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