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Privy Council

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A quick definition of Privy Council:

The Privy Council is a group of important people chosen by the British monarch to help them make decisions. It used to have a lot of power, but now it mostly does ceremonial things. One part of the Privy Council is the Judicial Committee, which is like a court that hears certain types of appeals. The Judicial Committee is made up of regular people, but sometimes religious leaders can join if the appeal is about church rules. The decisions made by the Judicial Committee are not always followed by other courts, but they are important because the people in the Privy Council and the House of Lords are often the same.

A more thorough explanation:

The Privy Council is the principal council of the sovereign in Britain. It is composed of cabinet ministers and other individuals appointed by the monarch to serve as privy councillors. The council's functions are mostly ceremonial in nature.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is a tribunal established in 1833. It has jurisdiction to hear certain admiralty and ecclesiastical appeals, as well as certain appeals from the Commonwealth. The committee is made up entirely of laypeople, although ecclesiastics may become members of the court if an appeal is brought under the Church Discipline Act. However, even then, the ecclesiastics must be episcopal privy counselors.

For example, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was responsible for hearing the appeal in the case of Miller v Prime Minister in 2019. The case concerned the legality of the Prime Minister's advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament. The committee's decision was not binding precedent in the UK, but it was influential due to the overlapping composition of members of the Privy Council and the House of Lords in its judicial capacity.

Another example of the Judicial Committee's jurisdiction is its role in hearing appeals from Commonwealth countries. For instance, in 2018, the committee heard an appeal from the Caribbean island of Bermuda in the case of Rodrigues v Attorney General of Bermuda. The case concerned the legality of a law that abolished same-sex marriage in Bermuda.

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GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:43
that's so interesting, i have a lot of arab family but i haven't heard of that
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:43
i guess it makes sense
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:43
@shaquilleoatmeal: I still think that would hurt my stomach
lilypadfrog
10:43
@shaquilleoatmeal: quarterly is crazy I haven’t gotten a physical in over three years
PuppyBot
10:43
median vitamin D intakes of American blacks are below recommended intakes in every age group, with or without the inclusion of vitamin D from supplements.
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:43
@GreyCeaselessMammoth: NO WAY!! from where mammoth
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:44
egypt! wa usratik mineyn?
indian people are also vitamin d deficient lolol
cumsock
10:44
i want a burgerrrrrrrrrr cheesy burger double patty bacon pickles
10:44
i am vitamin d deficient lol
PuppyBot
10:44
no pickles
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:45
@GreyCeaselessMammoth: I LOVE EGYPTIAN ARABIC IT KILLS ME
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:45
im palestinian
shaquilleoatmeal
10:45
@lilypadfrog: lmao, i get vo2 testing done at a lab and they offer it so i just do it. Also wtf havent u gotten a physical in so long?!
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:45
JUMPYYYY we're neighbors!!
cumsock
10:45
what if ur irish and u are pale enough to reflect light does that mean ur deficient
@GreyCeaselessMammoth: i eat mostly whole foods now on my day to day and its the best
PuppyBot
10:45
maybe. i also burn. so i dont get how im deficient
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:46
well i'm white but my stepdad is egyptian so i've been there a bunch and raised in a multi-gen egyptian household
10:47
Bio Chemistry is odd, some ppl just cannot absorb certain nutrients/vits. Like some calcium deficient ppl actually loose more calcium when they increase intake.
10:48
also some ppl are hyper sensitive to hormones/vit/nutrients.
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:48
@GreyCeaselessMammoth: love my masris
JumpySubsequentDolphin
10:48
@PuppyBot: I burn bad i don’t get it either
cumsock
10:49
i burn worse
shaquilleoatmeal
10:49
deficiencies are one thing, what scares me the most is if i ever became antibiotic resistant
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:50
i'm going again to egypt this summer, i think it'll be my last time for a while, at least until after law school
PuppyBot
10:50
i wonder if renard is going to get me that snowglobe from paris
GreyCeaselessMammoth
10:50
@JumpySubsequentDolphin: my cousins wife is palestinian, their wedding was so cool. it was neat learning about the palestinian wedding traditions
PuppyBot
10:50
prob not :/
10:51
I tan super well, its a wild blessing being eastern european and doesnt make much sense
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