HL Deb 24 July 1997 vol 581 c170WA
Lord Lester of Herne Hill

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Answer by the Lord Privy Seal of 15 July 1997 (WA 107), whether it is a constitutional convention of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that any member of the Board who concurs with the majority in the result, but arrives at that result by a different route, is not permitted to prepare a separate judgment; and, if so, what is the rationale for that convention.

Lord Richard

No. The entitlement of a member of the Judicial Committee to publish a dissenting opinion is determined by the Judicial Committee (Dissenting Opinions) Order 1966.