Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.

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* All government matters within the jurisdiction of the Privy Council were to be transacted there, and all council resolutions were to be signed by those who advised and consented to them.

Archbishops are, by convention, appointed to the Privy Council and may, therefore, also use the style of " The Right Honourable " for life ( unless they are later removed from the council ).

Category: Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

* Jonathan Aitken and the hotel bill allegations, and subsequent conviction for perjury after his failed libel action against The Guardian, resulting in Aitken being only the third person to have to resign from the Privy Council in the 20th century.

The seminal authority in relation to what amounts to a proper purpose is the Privy Council decision of Howard Smith Ltd v Ampol Ltd AC 821.

Districts may apply to the British Crown for the grant of borough status upon advice of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

Attlee was Lord Privy Seal ( 1940 – 42 ), Deputy Prime Minister ( 1942 – 45 ), Dominions Secretary ( 1942 – 43 ), and Lord President of the Council ( 1943 – 45 ).

Category: Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Category: Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Category: Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada

With the abolition of the monarchy, Privy Council and the House of Lords, it had unchecked executive, as well as legislative, power.

The Council of State, which replaced the Privy Council, took over many of the executive functions of the monarchy.

Rookes v Barnard has been much criticised and has not been followed in Canada or Australia or by the Privy Council.

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Lady Jane was proclaimed queen by the Privy Council, but her support quickly crumbled, and she was deposed after nine days.

The Privy Council ordered the arrest of both Howard and Arundel ; Oxford immediately met secretly with Arundel to convince him to support his allegations against Howard and Southwell, offering him money and a pardon from the Queen.

Only after being assured they would be placed under house arrest in the home of a Privy Council member did the pair gave themselves up.

Appeals from the Court of Appeal are sent to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, which essentially is the same body as the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.

An English translation of part of Slavata's report of the incident is printed in Henry Frederick Schwarz, The Imperial Privy Council in the Seventeenth Century ( Cambridge, Mass.

In 1896 a Privy Council report noted that there had been no prosecutions under the Foreign Enlistment Acts and considered them unenforceable.

The King was free to choose councillors, but was bound to decide on governmental matters only in presence of the Privy Council, or a subset thereof, and after report of the councillor responsible for the matter in question.

When this happened the Royal Governor of each county would report to the Governor-General instead of directly to the Monarch or the Privy Council.

Following Earl Grey's 1846 proposal for federation of the Australian colonies, an 1849 report from the Privy Council of the United Kingdom suggested that a national court be created.

The Group's report, Replacing the Privy Council: A New Supreme Court was published in April 2002, before the general election a few months later.

On 14 December 1542, Thomas Wharton's report of the battle was read to Privy Council, and they ordered that Scottish prisoners entering London should wear a red St Andrew's cross.

Despite its foundation resulting from a recommendation in a report on Film and National Life, at that time the institute was a private company, though it has received public money throughout its history-from the Privy Council and Treasury until 1965 and the various culture departments since then.

The five-month contract was awarded by the Justice Department in March 2003 to lobby the federal Solicitor General, Treasury Board and Privy Council, according to a detailed lobbyist report.

" This directly contradicts the statements of Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke, and conflicts with the statements of Lord Bingham of Cornhill — a Privy Councillor since 1986 — whose report claims that the interception services behaved properly.

* Reasons for report of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council upon a petition for special leave to appeal, 11th October 2004

* Any official report of Parliament or the Privy Council, which in the 19th and early 20th centuries were standardly issued in a dark blue paper cover

The central target for this letter is the Privy Council's report produced under the authority of Walpole.

In his criticism of the Privy Council's report, the Drapier claims that the report is part of Wood's propaganda and lies, because Wood released three proposals concurrent with the report: lowering the patent production quota from £ 100, 800 to £ 40, 000 worth ; that no one is obliged to accept more than five pence halfpenny per transaction ; and to sell the coin at 2s 1 d a pound or his raw copper at 1s 8d a pound.

In the sketch, the practice was taken to an extreme by backing a " news report " about the Lord Privy Seal ( a senior Cabinet official ) with images, in quick succession, of a lord, a privy, and a seal balancing a ball on its nose.

This report, and the growing influence of Plunkett, who became a member of the Irish Privy Council in 1897, led to the passing of an Act in 1899 which established a Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction ( DATI ) for Ireland, of which the Chief Secretary for Ireland was to be president ex officio.

** In order to differentiate peers who are Privy Councillors from those who are not, sometimes the suffix PC is added to the title.

Those hoping for governmental change from James were at first disappointed when he maintained Elizabeth's Privy Councillors in office, as secretly planned with Cecil, but James shortly added long-time supporter Henry Howard and his nephew Thomas Howard to the Privy Council, as well as five Scottish nobles.

The new body was headed by a President, and with the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer now added to the board as ex officio members.

Prime Ministers added to the Privy council ( by year ):

Blais retained this position, and added the position of President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada when Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as PC leader and prime minister.

Thus, according to Blackstone, which still exists in actual British legal legislator, not as legal theory but as legal reality and part of the machinery of legitimacy for the monarch as well as the monarch keeping their own private written records of conversation and advice to ministers, they are considered secret, by her many advisors and cannot be released to the public. The monarch is considered immortal and has absolute right to council, privately it should be added ( through the system known as Privy Council of the United Kingdom ) the monarch's own personal opinion will never be known to the public which is absolute from which there is no moment in time where the throne is vacant.

The Lord Chancellor presided over the Council ex officio, but in 1610 James VI decreed that the President of the College of Justice should preside in the Chancellor's absence, and by 1619 the additional title of President of the Privy Council had been added.

His industry, added to the influence of his family, procured his admission to the Privy Council of Ireland in 1768, and his appointment as one of the commissioners of revenue two years later.