- Dedication
- Guide to the Online Resource Centre
- Preface
- The 2015 general election
- Acknowledgements
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Table of statutory instruments
- Table of treaties and conventions
- Table of international legislation
- Part 1 Introduction and Constitutional Principles
- 1. What is Public Law?
- 2. Constitutional Organisations, Institutions, and Roles
- 3. The Nature of the British Constitution
- 4. The Rule of Law
- 5. The Separation of Powers
- 6. The Crown and Royal Prerogative
- Part 2 Parliamentary Supremacy
- 7. Parliamentary Supremacy
- 8. Membership of the European Union
- 9. Human Rights
- 10. Devolution
- Part 3 Responsible Government
- 11. Executive Power and Accountability
- 12. The Role of Constitutional Conventions
- 13. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
- Part 4 Judicial Review
- 14. The Role of the Courts, Judicial Review, and Human Rights
- 15. The Parties to a Judicial Review
- 16. Illegality
- 17. Irrationality and Proportionality
- 18. Procedural Impropriety
- 19. Remedies
- 20. A Case Study
- 21. Judicial Review
- Glossary
- Index
(p. 145) 6. The Crown and Royal Prerogative
- Chapter:
- (p. 145) 6. The Crown and Royal Prerogative
- Author(s):
Lisa Webley
and Harriet Samuels
- DOI:
- 10.1093/he/9780198714491.003.0006
Note: An update has been made available on the Online Resource Centre (Brexit update June 2017).
Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. The royal prerogative is a special form of common law that may be exercised by the Crown, either through the Queen as monarch (her personal prerogative) or through the executive as Her Majesty’s government (the political prerogative). This chapter begins by tracing the history and development of the royal prerogative, and the role of the Crown in the exercise of these powers, and then addresses the division between prerogative powers that are personally exercised by the Queen and those that are exercised on her behalf by the political executive. Next, it turns to the respective roles of Parliament and the courts in the operation and development of prerogative powers, considering the relevance of those powers today and proposals for reform.
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- Dedication
- Guide to the Online Resource Centre
- Preface
- The 2015 general election
- Acknowledgements
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Table of statutory instruments
- Table of treaties and conventions
- Table of international legislation
- Part 1 Introduction and Constitutional Principles
- 1. What is Public Law?
- 2. Constitutional Organisations, Institutions, and Roles
- 3. The Nature of the British Constitution
- 4. The Rule of Law
- 5. The Separation of Powers
- 6. The Crown and Royal Prerogative
- Part 2 Parliamentary Supremacy
- 7. Parliamentary Supremacy
- 8. Membership of the European Union
- 9. Human Rights
- 10. Devolution
- Part 3 Responsible Government
- 11. Executive Power and Accountability
- 12. The Role of Constitutional Conventions
- 13. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
- Part 4 Judicial Review
- 14. The Role of the Courts, Judicial Review, and Human Rights
- 15. The Parties to a Judicial Review
- 16. Illegality
- 17. Irrationality and Proportionality
- 18. Procedural Impropriety
- 19. Remedies
- 20. A Case Study
- 21. Judicial Review
- Glossary
- Index
