The fundamental principles of laws as laid down by the Privy Council are considered as path finder for the Indian Courts still today. At present also, the Privy Council command a great respect among Indian lawyers, judges as well as Indian public as the highest judicial institution. Some of the principles laid down by the Privy Council are still followed by the Supreme Court of India.
Thus as a whole, the contribution of Privy Council is considered as remarkable for the development of Indian Legal System and Indian Judicial Administration. It has played a great unifying role in shaping divergent laws in India. Drawbacks of Privy Council: In spite this contribution of Privy Council, it suffered from following drawbacks: 1. For long, it was staffed by Englishmen only, having no knowledge of Indian laws.
The location of the Privy Council was in England far away for common man in India making it disadvantageous. The subjection to the jurisdiction to foreign judicial institution i. All this put the poor man in India in difficult situations for seeking justice. Conclusion: From the above discussion, it reveals that the Privy Council has rendered a meritorious contribution in the development of Indian legal system and judicial institutions.
It introduced many fundamental legal principles in Indian legal system. It shaped the judicial institutions in India. As a whole its role is very significant in developing the legal system in India as it exists presently. The author can be reached at: priyadhanokar legalserviceindia. For Further Details Contact: editor legalserviceindia.
Legal Service India. Appeals from Courts in India to the Privy Council: This can be discussed under following sub-headings. Views: File Your Copyright - Right Now! Meetings are reported in the Court Circular, along with the names of Ministers attending usually four in number.
The Orders made at each Council are in the public domain, and each bears the date and place of the Council at which it was made. The myth that the Privy Council is a secretive body springs from the wording of the Privy Council Oath , which, in its current form, dates back to Tudor times. These will mostly concern matters of the national interest where it is important for senior members of Opposition parties to have access to Government information.
Investor Relations. Review a Brill Book. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was the final court of appeal for almost the entire expanse of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A general and comprehensive history of this Imperial court in a global context has yet to be written. Existing accounts of the operation of this court tend to focus on single regions or single jurisdictions within the Empire.
The absence of such a global history of the Privy Council appeal has hampered attempts to examine the practical impact of the appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on key issues that spanned many or all of the jurisdictions of the British Empire. The first policy objective that will be the examined by this chapter concerns the role of the Privy Council in maintaining Imperial unity. The second policy objective concerns the perceived need for an independent and external adjudicator to act as arbiter of the divisions of power within the federal systems that existed in parts of the Empire.
The third and fourth policy objectives examined by this chapter concern economic oversight and human rights. The purpose of this chapter is to offer an accessible introduction providing useful signposts that may lead to detailed analyses of these important aspects of the legal history of the British Empire.
This leads to a conclusion that recommends a greater emphasis on thematic and comparative studies of the appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in place of the national and regional studies that continue to dominate this area of scholarship. Reference Works. Primary source collections. Open Access Content. Contact us. Sales contacts. Publishing contacts. Social Media Overview.
Terms and Conditions. Though there is a specific department for Privy Council records at The National Archives department code PC , many Privy Council papers, and papers related to or sent to the Council, can be found in other departments, most notably in state papers department code SP , both foreign and domestic.
Many surviving pre records relating to the Privy Council and its predecessor can be found within the following departments and record series:. See also Published finding aids and resources, below. The most significant record series for Privy Council correspondence is PC 1 but mostly post Transcripts of correspondence to and from the Privy Council can be found in PC 2.
Correspondence between the Privy Council and other government departments can be found in some of the records of those departments. Below are listed some of the most significant record series of this kind:. A huge range of subjects are covered within Privy Council correspondence.
You can search for specific subject areas through our catalogue. Search using any or all of the record series listed in this section of the guide, and a keyword relevant to your subject. Series PC 1 is split into dozens of sub series, each covering a discrete subject area.
The sub series can be viewed in our catalogue. For more information on subjects covered and the kinds of documents you can find in PC 1, see the series description.
Below is an overview, along with some significant examples, of some of the subjects covered in Privy Council correspondence. Some or all of the relevant record series are listed in each case:.
Privy Council registers are found in series PC 2. The Privy Council began to keep its own register before but the earliest surviving registers date from that year. The registers can be supplemented, from to , by surviving minutes in PC 4 which include items of business which did not necessarily result in orders or other action.
Each register contains its own subject index. There are also subject indexes compiled in the s for and , and these are bound in the relevant register. There is a draft copy of the subject index for in the reading rooms at The National Archives in Kew. There are transcripts of the registers for , allowing you to bypass the demands of deciphering the seventeeth century handwriting of the originals.
It should be noted that in judicial appeals not all final decisions were necessarily recorded in the register. There are no registers for some date ranges, though some of the gaps can be filled using alternative sources, including the collections in the British Library. See table below for details:. The Privy Council is responsible for the issue of proclamations, Orders in Council and statutory instruments. References can be found in the registers, but this is not necessarily the best place to look and the series listed below may prove more useful.
Royal proclamations, often referred to simply as proclamations, are formal announcements made by the King or Queen and vary greatly in nature, from declarations of war or states of emergency, to the summoning or dissolution of Parliament.
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