ABSTRACT
The prerogative powers of the Crown are those powers which arise out of the common law and which are unique to the Crown. Two definitions may be given by way of introduction. To Dicey, the prerogative powers were ‘the residue of arbitrary and discretionary powers legally left in the hands of the Crown’ which, being exercised by the government in the name of the Crown, entails ‘every act which the executive government can do without the authority of an Act of Parliament’ (1885, p 425).
