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Lords and Justices
Judges of the Court of Appeal, also called Lords Justice of Appeal, are referred to as " Lord Justice N " or " Lady Justice N ." In writing, Lords Justices of Appeal are afforded the post nominal letters " LJ :" for example, Smith LJ.
Some such judges, for instance judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, are called ' Lords Justices ', or ' Ladies Justices ', as the case may be.
* Judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, known as ' Lords Justices of Appeal '.
On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.
Ten of the initial Justices of the Supreme Court were ten of the twelve then existing Lords of Appeal in Ordinary ( Law Lords ).
Although the Justices will still be formally addressed in the Supreme Court as " My Lord " or " My Lady ", future appointees will not be elevated to the House of Lords.
Established in 1875, the Court and its staff of 37 Lords Justices of Appeal hear both criminal appeals in the Criminal Division and civil appeals in the Civil Division, led by the Lord Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls respectively.
In its early days, the Court of Appeal divided its sittings between Westminster Hall for appeals from the High Court and Lincoln's Inn for Chancery, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty appeals, with five Lords Justices.
As well as the Lords Justices, the Lord Chancellor, any previous Lord Chancellors, the Lord Chief Justice, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, the Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division and the Master of the Rolls could also hear cases, although in practice only the Master of the Rolls did so.
In Tanfern Ltd v Cameron-MacDonald 1 WLR 1311 the Court commented on this limitation of second appeals, pointing out that the Lords Justices of Appeal were a valuable and scarce resource – it was necessary to impose limitations on appeals to prevent the Court and its judges becoming overburdened.
The Court of Appeal's main judges are the Lords Justices of Appeal.
The Senior Courts Act 1981 provides that the Court of Appeal comprise 38 ordinary sitting Lords Justices and the Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls, President of the Queen's Bench Division, President of the Family Division, and Chancellor of the High Court.
Retired Lords Justices sometimes sit in cases, as have retired Law Lords, and High Court judges are allowed to sit on occasion.
Lords Justices have, since 1946, been drawn exclusively from the High Court of Justice ; prior to this, Lords Justices were ( rarely ) recruited directly from the Bar.
The division of work in the Court of Appeal is demonstrated by the 2005 statistics, in which Lords Justices sat 66 % of the time, High Court Judges 26 % of the time and Circuit and Deputy High Court Judges 8 per cent of the time.
Several Civil Division Lords Justices are seconded to the Criminal Division, which is led by the Lord Chief Justice, currently Lord Judge.
When William left for Holland in July Marlborough was one of the Lords Justices left running the country in his absence ; but striving to reconcile his close Tory connections with that of the dutiful royal servant was difficult, leading Marlborough to complain – " The King's coldness to me still continues.

Lords and who
Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.
In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips — in the Commons — to oppose the measure as well.
Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.
Many of the extras were recruited by Amber Rudd who is described in the credits as " Aristocracy Co-ordinator "— among those used were Lords Burlington and Woolton.
It is also hinted that the Celestial Intervention Agency will evolve into the beings of pure thought known as the Celestis, who observe the war from outside this dimension ( the Last Parliament in which they sit resembles the Panopticon on Gallifrey and the closest anyone gets to describing them is similar to the Time Lords ' robes ).
The British-Irish Council is the expression of a relationship that at the origin of the Anglo-Irish process in 1981 was sometimes given the name Iona, islands of the North Atlantic, and sometimes Council of the Isles, with its evocation of the Lords of the Isles of the 14th and 15th centuries who spanned the North Channel.
The Lords set a date for the trial while the Commons appoints managers, who act as prosecutors in the trial.
The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.
The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.
Neither the Sovereign nor the House of Lords had any meaningful influence over who was elected to the Commons in 1997 or in deciding whether or not Blair would become Prime Minister.
For most of the history of the Upper House, Lords Temporal were land owners who held their estates, titles and seats as an hereditary right passed down from one generation to the next in some cases for centuries.
Representing the landed aristocracy, Lords Temporal were generally Tory ( later Conservative ) who wanted to maintain the status quo and resisted progressive measures such as extending the franchise.
Its membership is mostly made up of senior politicians who are ( or have been ) members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords.
The chief officer of the body is the Lord President of the Council, who is the fourth highest Great Officer of State, a member of the Cabinet, and normally, the Leader of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons.
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Furthermore, while the courts in the United Kingdom are undoubtedly amongst the most independent in the world, the Law Lords, who were the final arbiters of judicial disputes in the UK sat simultaneously in the House of Lords, the upper house of the legislature, although this arrangement ceased in 2009 when the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into existence.
Until 2005, the Lord Chancellor fused the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, as he was the ex officio Speaker of the House of Lords, a Government Minister who sat in Cabinet and was head of the Lord Chancellor's Department which administered the courts, the justice system and appointed judges, and was the head of the Judiciary in England and Wales and sat as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest domestic court in the entire United Kingdom, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the senior tribunal court for parts of the Commonwealth.
The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.
On 23 May 1618, four Catholic Lords Regent, namely Count Jarolslaw Martinitz, Count Vilem Slavata of Chlum, Adam II von Sternberg ( who was the supreme burgrave ), and Matthew Leopold Popel Lobcowitz ( who was the grand prior ), arrived at the Bohemian Chancellory at 8: 30am.

Lords and suspected
The first, called to grant massive war taxation to the Crown, turned into a parliamentary revolution, with the Commons ( supported to some extent by the Lords ) venting their grievances at decades of crippling taxation, misgovernment and suspected endemic corruption among the ruling classes.
The Law Lords ruled against the law in a case brought by nine of the detained suspected terrorists on 16 December 2004 and the measure was effectively abolished the following March when it was up for review.
In the case of JJ, the House of Lords drew an analogy between a prisoner in an open prison, and a suspected terrorist under a control order.

Lords and him
Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876 when Queen Victoria made him Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden.
In 1815 he was created Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).
" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.
In Henry Vane's case the House of Lords were desirous of having him specifically excepted, so as to leave him at the mercy of the government and thus restrain him from the exercise of his great talents in promoting his favourite republican principles at any time during the remainder of his life.
At a conference between the two Houses, it was concluded that the Commons should consent to except him from the act of indemnity, the Lords agreeing, on their part, to concur with the other House in petitioning the King, in case of the condemnation of Vane, not to carry the sentence into execution.
Kinnock was a long-time critic of the House of Lords, and his acceptance of a peerage led him to be accused of hypocrisy, by Will Self, among others.
Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.
Alec Douglas-Home resigned from his peerages days after becoming Prime Minister in 1963, and the last Prime Minister before him from the Lords left in 1902 ( the Marquess of Salisbury ).
' James Harris MP, however, recorded that Lord Nugent had told him that Chatham's last words in the Lords were: ' If the Americans defend independence, they shall find me in their way ' and that his very last words ( spoken to his son ) were: ' Leave your dying father, and go to the defence of your country '.
As part of his resignation the King agreed to elevate him to the House of Lords as the Earl of Orford and this occurred on 6 February 1742.
This effectively kept him off the scene while England endured the major political crisis of the conflict between Richard II and the Lords Appellant, who were led by John of Gaunt's younger brother Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester.
Dalton portrays Darnley as a bisexual who even beds the Queen's advisor, David Rizzio ( Ian Holm ), but later falls out with Rizzio and has him murdered by other plotters ( referred to in the film as the Lords of the Congregation ).
Thatcher appointed him Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords.
In colonial times all grants of land from the Lords Baltimore were in the shape of leases subject to small and merely nominal ground rents, reserved by the Proprietary, and payable annually at Michaelmas, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, which in the calendar of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches occurs on September 29 ; hence St. Michael was considered to be the patron saint of colonial Maryland, and as such was honored by the river being named for him.
The Master says in " The Sound of Drums " that the Time Lords " resurrected " him to fight in the Time War, which appears to support this.
However, this could have been because the radiation was slowly killing him – as is how radiation poisoning typically occurs in the real world – giving him enough time to say his goodbyes, or maybe Time Lords can temporarily stop their inevitable regeneration.
Shortly afterward, he had to spend most of it on saving Duke from being a zombified slave, but had enough left over to buy a British title ( His Lordship the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham ), which caused him to be called to England as a tie-breaker for a vote in the House of Lords over one of Margaret Thatcher's tax bills.
Note that in The Light Fantastic, he is referred to as Chancellor, but Ridcully subsequently upgrades him to Archchancellor in Lords and Ladies, when talking to aforementioned Granny Weatherwax.
Along with all other living recipients of hereditary peerages, he was created a life peer as Baron Pakenham of Cowley, of Cowley in the County of Oxfordshire, which allowed him to remain a member of the House of Lords.
He had also been affirmed Gentleman of the Bedchamber in April, and admitted to the English peerage as Baron Churchill of Sandridge in the county of Hertfordshire in May, thus giving him a seat in the House of Lords.

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