Attorney General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1920 |
| Date | 1920 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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310 cases
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R (Miller and Another) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
...Kingdom to withdraw from the TEU and other relevant European Treaties, The Secretary of State relies in particular on Attorney General v De Keyset's Royal Hotel [1920] AC 508 and R v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, ex p. Rees-Mogg [1994] QB 552 (DC); he contends t......
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Fire Brigades Union
...effect these provisions would have subsumed the prerogative, under the principle of Attorney-General v. De Keyser's Royal Hotel Ltd. [1920] A.C. 508. Compensation payments for crimes of violence would have become capable of being made only under the statute. But since these sections have no......
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Re X (A Child); Re Y (A Child)
...EWHC 440 (Fam)." 39 The modern learning on this is usually treated as beginning with the decision of the House of Lords in Attorney-General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel [1920] AC 508, where Lord Dunedin (page 526) said that "if the whole ground of something which could be done by the prerogati......
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The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago v Thomas
...at will, unless it is expressly otherwise provided by legislation.” 496 [See also Attorney General v. De Keyser's Royal Hotel, [1920] A.C. 508]. 497 Counsel for the appellant placed reliance on Fletcher v. Nott, (1938) 60 C.L.R. 55, in which the Nigh Court of Australia affirmed ‘the judgmen......
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5 firm's commentaries
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The Delta Report – Derivatives Newsletter: January 2017
...to take action which will defeat those rights. Clear statutory authority is required. 7 Attorney-General v De Keyser’s Royal Hotel Ltd [1920] AC 508. 8 Such principles include (i) Parliamentary sovereignty which means that the prerogative power to enter into and terminate treaties may not b......
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English High Court Rules Parliament Must Approve Brexit; Government Appeals to the Supreme Court
...decision follows, and discussed, previous jurisprudence on the use of prerogative powers in Attorney General v De Keyser’s Royal Hotel [1920] AC 508, R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex p. Fire Brigades Union [1995] 2 AC 513 and Laker Airways Ltd v Department of Trade [1977] ......
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Brexit Update – The UK Supreme Court Ruling on Article 50, the Great Repeal Bill and the Commencement of the Departure Process
...Para 81. [11] Ibid, Para 82. [12] Ibid, Para 50. Known as the "De Keyser principle" - Attorney General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel Ltd [1920] AC 508. [13] Ibid, Para 83. [14] Ibid, Para 126. ...
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Brexit update: the Article 50 Challenge, the Great Repeal Bill and Issues around Timing
...(Divisional Court), UKSC 2016/196, in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. [7] Attorney-General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel Ltd [1920] AC 508. [8] Such principles include (i) Parliamentary sovereignty which means that the prerogative power to enter into and terminate treaties may not be u......
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43 books & journal articles
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The Limits and Use of Executive Power by Government
...is 'a discretionary power to be exercised for the public good'). 92 Lord Justice Sedley, Freedom, Law and Justice (1999) 8 n 24. 93 [1920] AC 508 ('De Keyser'). See also Winterton, above n 8, 300 n 58. 94 Vadarlis (2001) 110 FCR 491, 542–3 [192]. 95 Ibid 542 [192]. 432 Federal Law Review Vo......
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Table of Cases
...[1981] QB 715, [1981] 3 WLR 125, [1981] 2 All ER 1057, (1981) 73 Cr App R 63, CA 321, 325 Attorney-General v De Keyser’s Royal Hotel Ltd [1920] AC 508, [1920] All ER Rep 80, 89 LJ Ch 417, HL 245 xxii Table of Cases Attorney-General v Scotcher [2003] EWHC 1380 (Admin), [2003] All ER (D) 221 ......
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Judicial Review of Non-Statutory Executive Powers
...and Dawson JJ), 67 (McHugh J); Re Bolton; Ex parte Beane (1987) 162 CLR 514, 528 (Deane J). 9 Attorney-General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel [1920] AC 508, 526 (Lord Dunedin), 537–40 (Lord Atkinson), 549–50 (Lord Moulton), 561–2 (Lord Sumner), 568–9 (Lord Parmoor); cf Barton v Commonwealth (197......
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Democracy, Liberty and the Prerogative: The Displacement of Inherent Executive Power by Statute
...the Study of the Law of the Constitution (Macmillan, 8 th ed, 1915) 421. 13 Ibid 418, 421. 14 See A-G v De Keyser's Royal Hotel Limited [1920] AC 508, 526 (Lord Dunedin); Burmah Oil Company (Burma Trading) Ltd v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, 99 (Lord Reid stating that this definition is 'alwa......
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