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LORD TEMPLEMAN. Parliament makes the law, the executive carry the law intoeffect and the judiciary enforce the law. The expression the Crown has twomeanings, namely the monench and the executive. In the seventeenth centuryParliament established its supremacy over the Crown as Monarch, over theexecutive and over the judiary. Parliamentary supremacy over the Crown asMonarch stems from the fact that the monarch must accept the advice of a PrimeMinister who is supported by a majority of Parliament. Parliamentary supremacyover the Crown as executive stems from the fact that Parliamentary supremacyover the Crown as executive stems from the fact that Parliament maintains inoffice the Prime minister, who appoints the ministers in charge of the executive.Parliamentary supremacy over the judiciary is only exercisable by stature. Thejudiciary enforce the law against individuals, against institutions and against theexecutive. The judges cannot enforce the law against the Crown as monarchbecause the Crown as monarch can do no wrong bus judges enforce the lawagainst the Crown as executive and against the individuals who from time to timerepresent the Crown. A hisgant complaining of a breach of the law by theexecutive can sue the Crown as executive brining his action against the ministerwho is responsible for the department of state involved, in the present case theSecretary of State for <strong>Home</strong> Affairs. To enforce the law the courts have power togrant remedies including injunctions against a minister in his official capacity. Ifthe minister has personally broken the law, the litigant can sue the minister, in539

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