A controversial GCHQ case determined the scope of judicial review of prerogative powers ( the Crown's residual powers under common law ).

Sir Edward Coke cites in his Reports a case at the end of Elizabeth's reign which seems to indicate that the Chancellor's prerogative had been overturned, when the judges ( without opposition from the Monarch ) allowed a claim to proceed despite the Lord Chancellor's implied jurisdiction.

But he was liberated on 16 July 1621, after the new Lord Chancellor John Williams had prevailed with George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to recommend to James I an exercise of his prerogative of mercy in the case of political prisoners.

Theoretically, the honours prerogative may be exercised only by the Sovereign or a representative thereof ( in this case, the Governor-General of Canada ), though in practice it is seldom utilised but on the advice of Ministers of the Crown.

There, MacCormick and Hamilton lost their case: it was held that the treaty had no provision concerning the numbering of monarchs — it was part of the royal prerogative, and that they had no title to sue the Crown.

Unless both the Houses pass a Bill and it receives President's assent it cannot become a law except in the case of a money bill which is the sole prerogative of the National Assembly.

The judges rejected his argument on absolute prerogative ; and a scandal blighted his reputation the following year, when it was revealed, or alleged, by John Selden that he had interfered with the King's Bench records ( a felony ), in order to promote the decision in the case to a binding precedent ( an interpretation that has recently been disputed by Mark Kishlansky ).

The case was argued before Herbert, who delivered formal judgment as follows: ' ( 1 ) That the kings of England are sovereign princes ; ( 2 ) that the laws of England are the king's laws ; ( 3 ) that therefore it is an inseparable prerogative in the kings of England to dispense with penal laws in particular cases, and upon particular necessary reasons ; ( 4 ) that of these reasons and these necessities the king himself is the sole judge.

The germ of the later distinction between " grand " and " petty " serjeanty is found in the Magna Carta ( 1215 ), the king there renouncing the right of prerogative wardship in the case of those who held of him by the render of small articles.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

In an interview about his last episode (" Justice Denied ") in the 13th season of Law & Order: SVU, he discussed his character's final case and his time with the show.

In the former case, he had been recognised as their sovereign by The Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek and The Bishopric of Courland, and as their prospective ruler by the authorities of The Bishopric of Dorpat ; The Bishopric of Reval with the Harrien-Wierland gentry were on his side ; Livonian Order conditionally recognised his right of ownership of Estonia ( Principality of Estonia ).

Although German U-boat crews were under War Order No. 154 not to rescue survivors, which was also the policy of the Allies, out of several thousand sinkings of merchant ships in World War II, there is only one documented case of a U-boat crew's deliberately attacking the ship's survivors: that of the U-852, whose crew attacked survivors of the Greek ship Peleus.

In October 1945, the German population of Olsztyn was expelled by Order of the City Commanders of Olsztyn and ordered to assemble on 18 October at Karl Roensch Street barracks camp for transfer to Germany and in the case of non-compliance were to be put in a " punishment camp ".

Legal drama sometimes overlap with crime drama, most notably in the case of Law & Order.

Blackfriars Hall is not a college but a Permanent Private Hall, meaning that it is owned and governed by an outside institution ( in this case, the English Province of the Order of Preachers ) and not by its fellows as a college is.

Order by the case from your grocer, druggist, or dealer.

The case served as inspiration for numerous works, including Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son, Tom Kalin's 1992 film Swoon, Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games ( and an American shot-for-shot remake in 2008 ); Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers ( 2002 ); Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story ; and various TV episodes ( including on Law & Order SVU ).

In this second case, an Order in Council is merely another form of Statutory Instrument ( in the UK, regulated by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 ), albeit subject to more formalities than a simple statutory instrument.

Later games in the series featured a military group of the Holy Lodis Empire alternatively known as " The Dark Knights " and " The Brigade of the Radiant Cross of the Caliginous Order " ( in Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber respectively ) who serve as primary antagonists to the player, the word " caliginous " connotating " dark " in the latter case.

The Church of Scotland has no compulsory prayer book although it does have a hymn book ( the 4th edition was published in 2005 ) and its Book of Common Order contains recommendations for public worship which are usually followed fairly closely in the case of sacraments and ordinances.

For example, in the Empire of Brazil, it was attached to the highest classes, each time called Grand Cross, of all three imperial orders: Imperial Order of Pedro I, Imperial Order of the Southern Cross ( in this case, also enjoying the military honours of a Lieutenant general ) and Order of the Rose.

Question Period lasts 45 minutes pursuant to Standing Order 30 ( 5 ), beginning no later than 2: 15 pm or 11: 15 am, as the case may be.

Bell's case ( as well as the murder of James Bulger ) was used as the basis for a 1999 episode of Law & Order entitled " Killerz ".

In an " Order Granting in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims " dated June 28, 2006, Judge Brooke Wells ( the federal magistrate judge presiding over discovery aspects of the case ) barred SCO from asserting 187 of the 298 allegedly misused items that IBM had moved to exclude from the lawsuit for lack of specificity, stating “ many of SCO ’ s arguments and much of Mr. Rochkind ’ s declaration miss the mark ”, and comparing SCO's tactics with those of an officer who accuses a citizen of theft, but will not disclose what the citizen is accused of stealing.

Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 ( 1944 ), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.

This is the case of the Orden Militar de la Constancia (' the Military Order of Loyalty '), founded on August 18, 1946, by the authorities in the Spanish protectorate within Morocco.

Mallard's case would later be adapted as an episode of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (" Anatomy of a Lye ", aired May 2, 2002 ) and also as an episode of Law & Order (" Darwinian ", aired January 7, 2004-though the driver is allowed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice after an autopsy reveals that the accident was not the cause of the fatal head injury ).

He starred in many made-for-TV movies, including Gramps ( 1995 ), co-starring with Andy Griffith, Rob Hedden's The Colony ( 1995 ) with Hal Linden, Stephen King's It, Danielle Steel's Heartbeat with Polly Draper, and It Came From the Sky in 1999 with Yasmine Bleeth, and made guest appearances on TV shows, such as " Felicity ", Ally McBeal, Scrubs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as an episode of Law & Order: SVU where the case involves the beating of a seven-months-pregnant woman, whose unborn child has been torn from her body via a primitive cesarean section.

Like the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, this was in a sense a revival of an earlier imperial award, in this case the Austro-Hungarian Decoration of Honor for Art and Science ( Österreichisch-Ungarisches Ehrenzeichen für Kunst und Wissenschaft ), which existed from 1887 to 1918.

* The Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode " Magnificat " was based on the Yates case.

In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension.

The courts of appeal in administrative cases however are specialized depending on the case, but most administrative appeals end up in the judicial section of the Council of State ( Raad van State ).

The European Central Bank for example announces its interest rate at the meeting of its Governing Council ; in the case of the U. S. Federal Reserve, the Board of Governors.

A case in point is the Third Ecumenical Council where two groups met as duly called for by the emperor, each claiming to be the legitimate council.

Attorney General Qoriniasi Bale told the Lau Provincial Council that the government had a team of experts preparing a case to be taken to the United Nations International Seabed Authority, which is based in Jamaica.

This was Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service AC 374 ( often known simply as the " GCHQ case ").

Instead, they argued that the resolution simply declared what the Assembly's powers already were, according to the UN Charter, in the case of a dead-locked Security Council.

The bishops in attendance at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 recognized that nothing could be done in the Church contrary to the emperor's will and command ; while, on his side, the emperor, in the case of the Patriarch Anthimus, reinforced the ban of the Church with temporal proscription.

During 2007, Macquarie University faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations At the centre of the investigation was Victor Ma, president of the Macquarie University Students ' Council, who had previously been involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the University of Sydney.

The British House of Lords, as the court of last appeal outside Scotland before the creation of the UK Supreme Court, was not strictly bound to always follow its own decisions until the case London Street Tramways v London County Council AC 375.

The recent case of Rabbi Mordecai Tendler, the first rabbi to be expelled from the Rabbinical Council of America following allegations of sexual harassment, illustrated the importance of clarification of Orthodox halakha in this area.

Nixon conferred with Jo Ann Robinson, an Alabama State College professor and member of the Women's Political Council ( WPC ), about the Parks ' case.

Also, on exceptions, the meeting can be presided by His Majesty the King of Spain, by request of the prime minister, in which case, the Council informs the King of the State's affairs.

Sometimes the tribune brought the case before the College of Tribunes or the Plebeian Council for a trial.

Although the resolutions passed by the General Assembly do not have the binding forces over the member nations ( apart from budgetary measures ), pursuant to its Uniting for Peace resolution of November 1950 ( resolution 377 ( V )), the Assembly may also take action if the Security Council fails to act, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, in a case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada ( Attorney General ) case.

This case, which came to be known as the Persons Case, had important ramifications not just for women's rights but also because in overturning the case, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council engendered a radical change in the Canadian judicial approach to the Canadian constitution, an approach that has come to be known as the " living tree doctrine ".

Though the monarch retains all executive, legislative, and judicial power in and over Canada, the governor general is permitted to exercise most of this, including the Royal Prerogative, in the sovereign's name ; some as outlined in the Constitution Act, 1867, and some through various letters patent issued over the decades, particularly those from 1947 that constitute the Office of Governor General of Canada ; they state: " And We do hereby authorize and empower Our Governor General, with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada or of any members thereof or individually, as the case requires, to exercise all powers and authorities lawfully belonging to Us in respect of Canada.

The Prime Minister dissolves the Council of Ministers at the first session of the newly elected Sejm, as well as in the case of: failure to pass by the Sejm of the vote of confidence for the Council of Ministers, passing of the vote of no confidence, or resignation for any other reasons.

However, since all EU states are members of the Council of Europe and have signed the Convention on Human Rights, there are concerns about consistency in case law between the two courts.

With respect to proposals by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the NPC has rejected a bill on maritime safety, and it is no longer uncommon for the State Council to amend or withdraw a bill on account of NPC opposition as with the case of the fuel tax and the draft food safety law which have been repeatedly blocked by the NPC.