Searchable catalogue of papers relating to appeals from colonial and Commonwealth courts to the UK Privy Council,1792 to 1998. Each record gives dates, party names, the origin of the appeal and other details, and lists the papers produced during the proceedings.
The Privy Council is the institution which allows interdepartmental agreement to be reached on certain aspects of UK government business. Its website provides information about its role and current activities, including an explanation of the orders in council, a list of all orders in council made by the Privy Council since 2000 and information about Royal charters. There is also a link to the separate website of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Full text judgments in cases heard by the UK Privy Council, made freely available on BAILII, the British and Irish Legal Information Institute website. The Privy Council is the court of final appeal for those Commonwealth countries which have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council, or, in the case of Republics, to the Judicial Committee. It is also the final court of appeal for the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, and UK overseas territories, and has the function of being the court of final appeal for determining "devolution issues" in the UK.
