Privy Council Agents

Saunders Solicitors are leading Privy Council Agent with a Privy Council practice taking on both criminal and civil appeals. Robin Lloyds heads the Privy Council team that have for many years acted for lawyers and their clients in Commonwealth and former Commonwealth jurisdictions.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council deals with about 55-65 Commonwealth and devolution appeals a year. Saunders Solicitors Privy Council team were involved in about 25% of the cases during 2007. To display judgments in some of our recent Privy Council cases please visit our Privy Council Cases page.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the court of final appeal for UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies. It is also the final appeal court for those Commonwealth countries that have retained the appeal to Her Majesty the Queen or, in the case of Republics, to the Privy Council's Judicial Committee. The Privy Council is also the court of final appeal for determining "devolution issues" under the United Kingdom devolution statutes of 1998 and it has certain other domestic jurisdiction within the United Kingdom. Jurisdiction.