Principles of British Constitutional Law: Being a Short Study of the Functions and Mutual Relations of the Executive, the Legislature, and the JudiciaryMethuen & Company Limited, 1925 - 221 pages |
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Page 180 - ... in the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them ; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them ; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them ; — to the end that it may be a government of laws, and not of men...
Page 41 - In such cases the Board of Education will have to ascertain the law and also to ascertain the facts. I need not add that in doing either they must act in good faith and fairly listen to both sides, for that is a duty lying upon every one who decides anything.
Page 76 - No action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a declaratory judgment or decree is prayed for. The declaration may be either affirmative or negative in form and effect; and such declarations shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree.
Page 146 - Act, and shall (subject as hereinafter mentioned) be of the same effect as if they were contained in this Act, and shall be judicially noticed.
Page 115 - A law establishing any such Council shall determine its powers, rights and duties, and its relation to the government of the Irish Free State (Saorstat Eireann).
Page 39 - In modern times it has become increasingly common for Parliament to give an appeal in matters which really pertain to administration, rather than to the exercise of the judicial functions of an ordinary Court, to authorities whose functions are administrative and not in the ordinary sense judicial.