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Crown, Prerogative, Government: The Crown The central, organizing principle of government in the United Kingdom is the Crown. It 'personifies the executive government of the country'1: the Crown is associated with executive authority rather than with that of the common interest. Major public powers are seen to rest with the Crown, but are generally vested in ministers, servants of the Crown. Lord Diplock in Town Investments Ltd v Department of the Environment [1978], "to speak of 'the Crown' as doing legislative or executive acts of government, which, in reality...are decided on and done by human beings rather than the Queen herself, invokes risk of confusion." 2 therefore we should instead of speaking of 'the Crown' speak of 'the government'. This establishes two points; firstly that the concept of the Crown distorts reality in representing the different elements of the executive as a unified whole and secondly, Lord Diplock holds the view that...

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