R v Powell
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1841 |
| Date | 1841 |
| Court | Court of the Queen's Bench |
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9 cases
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M v Home Office
...Her Majesty's ships. 72The prerogative remedies could not be obtained against the Crown directly as was explained by Lord Denman C.J. in Reg. v. Powell (1841) 1 Q.B. 352: "… both because there would be an incongruity in the Queen commanding herself to do an act, and also because the disobe......
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M v Home Office
...Her Majesty's ships. 72The prerogative remedies could not be obtained against the Crown directly as was explained by Lord Denman C.J. in Reg. v. Powell (1841) 1 Q.B. 352: "… both because there would be an incongruity in the Queen commanding herself to do an act, and also because the disobe......
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Rural Transit Association Ltd v Jamaica Urban Transit Company Ltd et Al
...Affidavit of Kirk Finnikin filed 19 th November, 2014 13 [2013] JMFC Full Crt 4 , at paras 90–160 14 [2007] UKPC 65 15 Counsel relied on R v Powell (1841) 1 Q.B. 352 which was affirmed in M v Home Office [1994] 1 A.C. 377 and section 16 of the Crown Proceedings Act. 16 Rural Transit Associa......
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Suzette Curtello v The University of the West Indies
...the fact that attachment or some other order for contempt is the possible consequence of a breach of a mandatory order. 70 In the case of R v Powell (1841) 1 QB 352, 361, Lord Denman CJ made the following observation: “That there can be no mandamus to the Sovereign there can be no doubt, b......
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1 books & journal articles
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Of Kings and Officers — The Judicial Development of Public Law
...Crown (3rd ed, 2000) 31. 147 Thomas v R (1874) LR 10 QB 44; Commonwealth v Northern Land Council (1991) 103 ALR 267, 288. 148 R v Powell (1841) 1 QB 352; 113 ER 1166. As a practical matter prohibition or certiorari were also not available against the King, but this followed from the limited......