It can namely be used as a justification to maintain discriminatory or outdated laws, policies and practices. IRB Media. Blackstone states that the natural-born subject of one prince to whom he owes allegiance may be entangled by subjecting himself absolutely to another, but it is his own act that brings him into these straits. The use of mechanical restraint is a common practice in psychiatric care, often defended by medical necessity but seldom questioned from a human rights per- spective. The Order in Council suspending all further executive action in Rhodesia was similar to an Act of State, which the courts cannot question: see Secretary of State v.
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