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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
A tribunal, created by the Judicial Committee Act 1833, to hear appeals from courts in dependent territories and those Commonwealth countries that have retained appeals to the Privy Council since attaining independence; it also hears appeals under certain statutes. Its members currently comprise Justices of the Supreme Court, Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, and other members of the Privy Council who have been Lords of Appeal in Ordinary or who have held high judicial office. Certain judges of Commonwealth countries who are Privy Counsellors are also members. The Committee’s decisions are not technically judgments but merely advice to the Crown: they do not become final until incorporated into an Order in Council. For this reason also, until 1966 dissenting opinions were not disclosed. The Committee’s decisions are not binding as precedents upon English courts but are merely of persuasive authority. |