The Evening Post
April 18 2001
Did law lords get it wrong?
Letters to the Editor
by Peter Watson,
Periodically there are calls to abandon not only
the Queen but also the Privy Council as being costly and irrelevant.
Recently, it was announced (The Post, April 7) that the Privy Council had found
in favour of the Valentine's restaurant chain in a dispute with a developer.
This was despite both the New Zealand High Court and the Court of Appeal having
found for the developer. What's more, the Privy Council included at the time a
member of the
This action by the council raises many questions. Did both
Can we be assured that if we do eventually discard the Privy Council we will
continue to receive a reasonable standard of justice? I would like to think so
and that the
I am sure Arthur Allan Thomas and Peter Ellis, to name but two, might have
similar views about the wisdom of such a move.