From: | Neil Foster <neil.foster@newcastle.edu.au> |
To: | Lee, James <james.lee@KCL.AC.UK> |
obligations@uwo.ca | |
ENRICHMENT@LISTS.MCGILL.CA | |
Date: | 20/07/2016 11:46:44 UTC |
Subject: | Re: UK Supreme Court decisions: Illegality, Malicious Prosecution and Precedent |
"There will be appeals to the JCPC where a party wishes to challenge the correctness of an earlier decision of the House of Lords or the Supreme Court, or of the Court of Appeal on a point of English law, and where the JCPC decides that the House of Lords or Supreme Court, or, as the case may be, the Court of Appeal, was wrong. It would plainly be unfortunate in practical terms if, in such circumstances, the JCPC could never effectively decide that courts of England and Wales should follow the JCPC decision rather than the earlier decision of the House of Lords or Supreme Court, or of the Court of Appeal. In my view, the way to reconcile this practical concern with the principled approach identified... above is to take advantage of the fact that the President of the JCPC is the same person as the President of the Supreme Court, and the fact that panels of the JCPC normally consist of Justices of the Supreme Court."
Where a Lords or UKSC decision is to be a challenged, an appropriate Privy Council panel can be convened, Lord Neuberger continues, and members of that Board "can, if they think it appropriate, not only decide that the earlier decision of the House of Lords or Supreme Court, or of the Court of Appeal, was wrong, but also can expressly direct that domestic courts should treat the decision of the JCPC as representing the law of England and Wales" (At [21]).
There is a third case on lying in insurance claims, but that is not as directly on point for members of these lists (https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2014-0252-judgment.pdf).
Best wishes,
James
The Dickson Poon School of Law
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
The Dickson Poon School of Law
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS