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Your article of 6 December "Dr Owen and the right
advice" about the prerogative of mercy does not reflect
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the true position of the Secretary of State. When in
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his statement of 11 August 1947, Mr Creech Jones' referred stokument, when merry codifed Exry cushy punches, refund after reformy to the legal position of the Crown in the passage you quoted,
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he went on to discuss the limitations upon the power of the
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Secretary of State to intervene, and made it clear that,
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although the Secretary of State would not shut his eyes
to some exceptional case in which some indication of a
miscarriage of justice were brought to his notice, he would
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be able to deal with it by communicating with the Governor. ん
His statement concluded by saying:"
"It is inconceivable that, in order to prevent
a miscarriage of justice in such a case, I should
have to advise His Majesty to intervene, and in
practice, therefore, it is highly improbable that
intervention by His Majesty on the advice of the
Secretary of State would ever take place.
I am
convinced that to follow any other course would
seriously impair the administration of justice in
the Colonies.
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You suggest that, pending reversal of the Creech Jones
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doctrine, the Queen's prerogative should be invariably used
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