The UK Privy Council has approved proposed changes to the governing body of a Channel Island which still operates a feudal system of government.Now for Jersey.
Sark's ruling body, the Chief Pleas, breaches the European Convention of Human Rights because landowners have got a seat automatically for 450 years.
The Chief Pleas had already approved new reform laws to introduce a 28-member elected chamber.
The Privy Council decision means the modernisation can now go ahead.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Democracy reaches the Channel Islands
The BBC reports:
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