‘This in no wise omit’
Tom Bingham: Habeas Corpus, 7 October 2010
Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire
by Paul Halliday.
Harvard, 502 pp., £29.95, March 2010,978 0 674 04901 7 Show More
by Paul Halliday.
Harvard, 502 pp., £29.95, March 2010,
“... Queen’s) Bench, which was not modest in its pretensions. ‘This court,’ Sir Thomas Fleming said, ‘is the jurisdiction of the queen herself. It is so high that in its presence other jurisdictions cease.’ It had, according to Coke in 1615, ‘the survey of all other courts’. Lord Chancellor Ellesmere sought to resist this ... ”