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It is interesting to note the comment by Lord Parker about mandamus not beingavailable since similar comments were sometimes made about injunctions inprivate law proceedings. Nonetheless, there were limits at that time, as LordParker indicates, to the availability of mandamus,. It was necessary that thereshould be a duty which was owed to the applicant as a member of the public theduty which was required was not a private duty which would give rise to a right todamages in the event of a breach, but a public duty. In addition the injunctions beplaced on a named minister. As already indicated, in most situation todaystatutory duties are conferred on ministers in their own name and not upon theCrown in general see Professor Sir William Wade QC Injunctive relief against theCrown and ministers (1991) 107 LQR L. Anrthermore, by the time of theintroduction of the remedy of judicial review the potion had developed so that theprerogative orders, including prohibition and mandamus, were being grantedregularly against ministers without any investigation of whether a statutory duty,whih had not been complied with was placed upon the minister or some one elsein the department for which the minister was responsible. Thus the ImmigrationAct 1971 places some duties on immigration officers and others on the <strong>Home</strong>Secretary, but even where it is the immigration officer who has not complied withthe statutory duty it is the immigration officer who has not complied with thestatutory duty it is the practice to make an order of mandamus against theminister (an example is provided by R v Secretary of State for the <strong>Home</strong> Dept.exp Phanksoplear (1975) 3 All ER 497, (1976) QB 606). As a result of even more585

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