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===Judicial Committee===

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The [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council|Judicial Committee]] serves as the [[final court of appeal]] for the [[Crown Dependencies]], the [[British Overseas Territories]], some [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries, military sovereign base areas and a few institutions in the [[United Kingdom]]. The Judicial Committee also hears very occasional appeals from a number of ancient and ecclesiastical courts. These include the [[Church Commissioners]], the [[Arches Court of Canterbury]], the [[Chancery Court of York]], prize courts, the [[High Court of Chivalry]], and the [[Court of Admiralty]] of the [[Cinque Ports]]. This committee usually consists of members of the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]] and senior judges of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] who are Privy Counsellors.

Within the United Kingdom, the Judicial Committee hears appeals from [[ecclesiastical courts]], the Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports, [[Prize Court]]s and the Disciplinary Committee of the [[Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons]], appeals against schemes of the [[Church Commissioners]] and appeals under certain Acts of Parliament (e.g., the [[House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975]]).<ref name="pco-jurisdiction2">{{cite web |title=Role of the JCPC |url=http://www.jcpc.uk/about/role-of-the-jcpc.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114165910/http://www.jcpc.uk/about/role-of-the-jcpc.html |archive-date=14 January 2014 |access-date=13 January 2012 |publisher=Judicial Committee of the Privy Council}}</ref> The Crown-in-Council was formerly the supreme appellate court for the entire [[British Empire]],<ref>Iwi, p. 128.</ref> but a number of Commonwealth countries have now abolished the right to such appeals.<ref>N.&nbsp;Cox, ''Abolition or Retention of the Privy Council'', Sect.&nbsp;11.</ref> The Judicial Committee continues to hear appeals from several Commonwealth countries, from [[British Overseas Territories]], [[Sovereign Base Area]]s and [[Crown Dependencies]].<ref name="pco-jurisdiction2" /> The Judicial Committee had direct jurisdiction in cases relating to the [[Scotland Act 1998]], the [[Government of Wales Act 1998]] and the [[Northern Ireland Act 1998]], but this was transferred to the new [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]] in 2009.<ref name="gay-p62">Gay and Rees, p. 6.</ref>