Notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1643, published 1764 ) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666 ).

Two days after Bloody Sunday, the Westminster Parliament adopted a resolution for a tribunal into the events of the day, resulting in Prime Minister Edward Heath commissioning the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery to undertake it.

Judicial decisions and treatises of the 17th and 18th centuries, such at those of Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, presented the common law as a collection of such maxims.

Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

After leaving the Admiralty, Lord Mountbatten took the position of Chief of the Defence Staff.

The young Villiers was to have a long parliamentary career, while Cockburn became Lord Chief Justice of England in 1859 ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

There are seats for each of the 79 councillors, situated in a Hemicycle, all facing the Lord Provost ( the Scottish equivalent of the lord mayor found in London and other cities ), his Depute, and the Chief Executive, who are seated behind the mace.

Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the English Kings of Arms, Scotland's Lord Lyon King of Arms, and the Chief Herald of Ireland continue making grants of arms.

Three previous trials of the defendants had been halted because of jury tampering, and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, cited cost and the additional burden on the jurors as reasons to proceed without a jury.

He was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1834, and presided in that court for more than nine years.

In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that " On the early death of his father, he ( Edward Moulton ) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit.

* Peter Campbell Scarlett, A Memoir Of The Right Honorable James, First Lord Abinger, Chief Baron Of Her Majesty's Court Of Exchequer, 1877

Lord Peter encourages his friend and foil, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, to propose to his sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, despite the great difference in their rank and wealth.

Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, and Cromwell: the Lord Protector Phoenix Press, ISBN 0-7538-1331-9.

His father's first cousin, Sir Richard Pepys, was elected MP for Sudbury in 1640, and appointed Baron of the Exchequer on 30 May 1654, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, on 25 September 1655.

In 2005, the Constitutional Reform Act separated the powers with Legislative functions going to an elected Lord Speaker and the Judicial functions going to the Lord Chief Justice.

In his judgment of a child custody court case in England in 1994, after extensive research of COG publications and the testimony of numerous witnesses, Lord Justice Sir Alan Ward said the following about Flirty Fishing:

A parallel report into the criminal justice system by Lord Justice Auld, a past Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, had also commenced in 1999 and was published as the Auld Report six months after the Law Commission report.

When acting as Lord of Mann, the Queen acts on the advice of the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom having prime responsibility as Privy Counsellor for Manx affairs.

Mr. Steel did not call the motion but Murray ( now Lord Murray, a former Senator of the College of Justice of Scotland ) agrees that the Commons still have the right to initiate an impeachment motion.

John marries Grace and becomes Lord of the Manor and Justice of the Peace.

Lord Denning, first of the High Court of Justice, later of the Court of Appeal, provided a famous example of this evolutionary process in his development of the concept of estoppel starting in the High Trees case: Central London Property Trust Ltd v. High Trees House Ltd K. B.

The Lord Chancellor's Department was replaced with a Ministry of Justice and the Lord Chancellor currently serves in the position of Secretary of State for Justice.

* Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss-First female Lord Justice of Appeal ( 1988 – 1999 ); President of the Family Division, High Court of Justice ( 1999 – 2005 )

Bingham was Lord President of Connacht, with the task of increasing control over the local lords that had been effectively self-governing.

The British government also set up an independent inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Bingham, in 1992.

So, for example, in the criminal law case of R v. Rimmington ( 2005 ) UKHL 63 Lord Bingham said " Where Parliament has defined the ingredients of an offence.

On October 4, 2004 a Committee of nine Lords, including both the Senior Law Lord Lord Bingham of Cornhill and Second Senior Law Lord Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, was convened to hear challenges to the indefinite detention of suspects under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, and on December 16 it announced an 8-1 ruling against the Government.

Even as the smallest of the Inns of Court it has had members who have been particularly noted lawyers and judges, such as Francis Bacon, Baron Slynn, Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hoffmann and others.

The principles which lead to a finding of an abuse of process in the UK were stated in Johnson v. Gore Wood & Co by Lord Bingham.

Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan ( born 18 December 1934 ), popularly known as Lord Lucan, a British peer and suspected murderer, disappeared without trace early on 8 November 1974.

This claim was endorsed by Lord Bingham of Cornhill in Jackson v Attorney General who argued that " hen 1911, as now, the Crown in Parliament was unconstrained by any entrenched or codified constitution.

The heir apparent is the seventh Earl's son George Charles Bingham, Lord Bingham ( b. 1967 )

Lord Bingham ruled that Bentley's trial had been unfair because the judge had misdirected the jury and, in his summing-up, had put unfair pressure on the jury to convict.

Lord Bingham did not rule that Bentley was innocent, merely that there had been defects in the trial process.

Bingham, the son of Lord Clanmorris, entered the Royal Navy in 1895.

Bingham, George Bingham, Lord

Bingham, George Bingham, Lord

## Lord Bingham, eldest son of the Earl of Lucan