An Australian Perspective on the Removal of Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Abstract

The extent to which there ought to be any restriction on a right, founded in royal prerogative power, to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (hereinafter, the Judicial Committee) was a subject which antedated and very nearly derailed the federation on 1 January 1901 of the six British colonies in Australia so as to form the nation known as the Commonwealth of Australia.