Prohibitions del Roy [1607] EWHC J23 (KB)
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The court ruled that the king cannot judge any case (though he may sit at the King’s Bench).
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However he could make a judgement in HL with the approval of the Lords there.
This was based on past precedent: Since the Norman Conquest no king deemed to act as a judge, since this is the function of courts of justice.
It was also stated that the king cannot arrest a man, since, in the instance of wrongful arrest, the victim would have no remedy, the king being incapable of punishment by the law.
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