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Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law

Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law

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Series: Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law, Book 9

General Law

ISBN10: 1509918329
ISBN13: 9781509918324
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 28 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Entick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. In 1762 the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, despatched Nathan Carrington and three other of the King's messengers to John Entick's house in Stepney. They broke into his house, seizing his papers and causing significant damage. Why? Because he was said to have written seditious papers published in the Monitor. Entick sued Carrington and the other messengers for trespass. The defendants argued that the Earl of Halifax had given them legal authority to act as they had. Lord Camden ruled firmly in Entick's favour, holding that the warrant of a Secretary of State could not render lawful actions such as these which were otherwise unlawful.

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