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The Hermitage of Saint Helier. Although there are indications that missionary efforts created small places of Christian worship in various places in the islands before 450 A.D. [1]: 29 the first proper evidence of Christianity is recorded as coming to the Islands around 520 A.D. when Samson of Dol visited Guernsey and in 540 A.D. when Helier arrived in Jersey, living as a hermit until he was ...
The Judicial Greffier is the clerk or registrar of the Royal Court and the other courts of the Island. [4] The Greffier also carries out some of the administrative functions of the Royal Court, for example registering doctors. [5] The Greffier of the States is the clerk and record-keeper for the States Assembly.
In June 1943 the bodies of two RAF NCO's washed ashore in Jersey, the military funeral attracted large crowds along the route [22]: 50 then in November, soon after the sinking of HMS Charybdis and HMS Limbourne on 23 October 1943, the bodies of 21 Royal Navy and Royal Marines men were washed up in Guernsey. The German authorities buried them ...
Little did the islanders imagine their homes would be under German occupation for five years, before liberation on 9 May 1945. When it became clear that the Battle of France was lost, time was limited for anyone to evacuate, even so 25,000 people went to Great Britain, roughly 17,000 from Guernsey , [ 2 ] 6,000 from Jersey and 2,000 from ...
[1]: 232 Negotiations on terms were concluded in 1971 resulting in the European Communities (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1973 allowing EU regulations to have immediate effect in Guernsey. Additional effects on Guernsey followed the Treaty of Maastricht,1992, the Treaty of Amsterdam,1997, the Treaty of Nice, 2001 and the Treaty of Lisbon, 2004.
The Courts of Guernsey are responsible for the administration of justice in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. They apply the law of the Island, which is a mixture of customary law dating back as far as the 10th century and legislation passed by the legislature, the States of Deliberation .
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James Cocquerel [1] (1412–1432); Thomas de la Court (1433–1445); John Henry [1] (1446–1447); William Cartier [1] (1447–1465); Thomas de la Court [1] (1466 ...