King May Sit in Court but has no Part in Judgment
The King may sit in the King’s Bench, but the Court gives the judgment. No King after the conquest assumed to himself to give any judgment in any cause whatsoever which concerned the administration of justice, within the realm; but these causes were solely determined in the Courts of Justice.
Sir Edward Coke asserted, the legal method of an expositor of the law required ‘long study and experience, before that a man can attain to the cognizance of it.
[1607] EWHC KB J23
Bailii
England and Wales
Constitutional
Leading Case
Updated: 31 October 2021; Ref: scu.248366