Assertion: prerogative | /r/HasProperty | exercised
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text: WHEN PREROGATIVE OF MERCY CAN BE EXERCISED
text: Since the 19th century, by convention, the advice of the prime minister or the cabinet—who are then accountable to Parliament for the decision—has been required in order for the prerogative to be exercised.
text: The government argued that this action was to defend against an invasion; the courts held that for the prerogative to be exercised, the government must demonstrate that a threat of invasion exists.
text: Some might argue that Laker is a stronger factual matrix than Miller because the company went bankrupt immediately when the prerogative was exercised.
text: They also include the prerogative of mercy, which is no longer used to save condemned men from the scaffold but can be exercised to remedy miscarriages of justice which are not put right by the courts.
text: Suffice to say that where the Prerogative of Mercy is exercised while the convict’s case is pending at whatsoever stage, such mercy is nothing short of the back of a duck-fowl; it cannot hold water.