Royal Law: Prerogative Foundations

This book argues that prerogative powers encompass all the non—statutory powers of the Crown. Hence the Crown has no 'third source' powers, common law powers or 'Ram doctrine' style freedoms.

Royal Law builds on Dicey's definition of the prerogative, arguing that it comprises all residual non—statutory rights, powers, duties, and immunities historically ascribed to the Crown. However, it contends that Blackstone's alternative definition, that prerogative powers are only those powers exclusi...