JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL


Meaning of JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL in English

Usage: usually capitalized J&P & both Cs

: a committee of the British Privy Council composed of leading jurists usually from Great Britain and occasionally from Commonwealth countries that acts as the highest court of appeal from British colonies and from some of the nations of the Commonwealth

appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council still lies from Ceylonese courts — Maurice Duverger

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