The Court of Claims in the United Kingdom is a special court established after the accession of a new sovereign to judge the validity of the claims of persons to perform certain honorary services at the coronation of the new monarch.
The first recorded such court was held in 1377 before the Lord High Steward. The position of Lord High Steward of England is the first of the Great Officers of State. Since the time of Henry VII commissioners have been appointed in lieu, and the court now consists of a royal commission appointed under the Great Seal. The term Royal Commission may also be used in the United Kingdom to describe the group of Lords Commissioners who may act in the stead of the The Great Seal of the Realm or Great Seal of the United Kingdom (prior to the Union the Great Seal of England, then Great Seal of Great Britain
The court may refer any claim to the sovereign pleasure, and the sovereign may withdraw a claim from the commission and transfer it to another tribunal.
Further reading
- Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second : minutes of the proceedings of the Court of claims (Crown Office, 1952)
- Coronation Claims, G. W. Wollaston (London, 1910)
External links
London Gazette: no. 34342, page 7489, 20 November 1936. The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the UK in which certain Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2007-11-21. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. — Court of Claims 1936
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