For a full list of all historic Benedictine houses in England & Wales see below.

* Canal & River Trust, the charitable trust in charge of England and Wales ' canal nework.

The census of England & Wales is undertaken for the government by the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ).

File: Kirrawee 1. JPG | Saint Mary, Saint Pakhom & Saint Shenouda Church, Kirrawee, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

File: CopticChurchRhodes. jpg | Saint Mary & Saint Mercurius Church, Rhodes, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

File: 17112007051. jpg | Iconostasis, Saint Mary & Saint Mercurius Church, Risca, Wales, United Kingdom

File: St Mary Orthodox, Risca. jpg | Iconostasis, Saint Mary & Saint Mercurius Church, Risca, Wales, United Kingdom

First used at the TSB England & Wales

* England & Wales

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

The Homicide Act 1957 is the statutory basis for the defense of diminished responsibility in England & Wales, whereas in Scotland it is a product of case law.

* Download: Lord Stevens ' 832-page Operation Paget Report Into The Deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed & Henri Paul 14 December 2006

* Paget, Gerald ( 1977 ) The Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.

These events led to Owain being proclaimed Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, by a small band of followers which included his eldest son, his brothers-in-law, and the Dean of St Asaph in the town of Corwen, possibly in the church of SS Mael & Sulien.

Plaid has the third-largest number of seats in the National Assembly for Wales, after Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservative & Unionist Party, and participated with the former in the coalition agreement in the Assembly before the 2011 election.

* The legal and political union of Wales with England is reinforced by An Acte for Lawes & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme.

In continental France ( metropolitan France, excluding Corsica ), the median land area of a department is, which is two-and-a-half times the median land area of a ceremonial county of England & Wales and slightly more than three-and-half times the median land area of a county of the United States.

At the 2001 census, the median population of a department in continental France was 511, 012 inhabitants, which is 21 times the median population of a U. S. county, but less than two-thirds of the median population of a ceremonial county of England & Wales.

Slate tiles were used in 19th century UK building construction ( apart from roofs ) and in slate quarrying areas such as Blaenau Ffestiniog & Bethesda, Wales there are still many buildings wholly constructed of slate.

* John Edward Lloyd ( 1911 ) A history of Wales: from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest ( Longmans, Green & Co .)

* John Edward Lloyd ( 1911 ) A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest ( Longmans, Green & Co .)

Other finds are now held at the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Cardiff: Early Bronze Age, or Beaker, collared urn pottery ; flaked knives ; a scraper ; flint flakes ; a bone spatula ; a needle & bead ; and animal bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog.

The heraldic beasts carved by Ben Harms and Ray Gonzalez of G & H Studios includes The Golden Lion of England, The White Greyhound of Richmond, The Red Dragon of Wales and the White Hart of Richard II, are all carved from English oak.

In the three jurisdictions of the UK ( Northern Ireland ; England & Wales ; and Scotland ) there are only two standards of proof in trials.

Category: Borders of New South Wales

These manors were concentrated in Wales, and in the Welsh Borders around Ludlow.

* Wales and Borders passed to Arriva in December 2003

* North Wales and Borders Waterways

* Pat Borders, 1992 World Series MVP, part time Lake Wales resident and Lake Wales High School Alumnus

The period of the franchise saw both additions to and losses from the network: services in Mid Wales were transferred away to Wales and Borders in 2001, but the company also reintroduced direct services to Stansted Airport from the north.

Valley Lines became Wales & Borders from October 2001 combining its services with most of Wales & West's Welsh services and the Cambrian Line services from Central Trains.

In September 2003 Wales & Borders took over the North Wales Coast Line services from First North Western.

Wales & Borders operated passenger services in Wales and the West Country as seen in their route map.

Wales & Borders inherited a fleet of Class 142, Class 143 and Class 150s from Valley Lines and Class 158s from Wales & West and Central Trains.

Wales & Borders also used Mark 2 carriages on Rhymney Line and Fishguard Harbour services hauled by EWS Class 37s and Mark 2 carriages hauled by EWS Class 47s on North Wales Coast Line services.

On 1 August 2003 the Strategic Rail Authority awarded the new franchise to Arriva with the services operated by Wales & Borders transferring to Arriva Trains Wales on 7 December 2003.

It stands on a high point overlooking the River Teme and in the Middle Ages it was an important strategic stronghold for control of the Welsh Borders, and at times the seat of English government in Wales.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

The Inns of Court in London were originally ordinary inns where barristers met to do business, but have become institutions of the legal profession in England and Wales.

In the United Kingdom, the process known in the United States as involuntary commitment is informally known as " detaining " or " sectioning ," using various sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 ( covering England and Wales ), the Mental Health ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 and the Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2003 that provide its legal basis.

* 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Major was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry, with responsibility for legal and administrative matters.

In southwest England, in Wales, and in the border areas between Scotland and England, " some couples ... agreed to marry verbally, without exchanging legal contracts .... thers jumped over broomsticks placed across their thresholds to officialize their union and create new households ", indicating that contractless weddings and jumping the broomstick were different kinds of marriage.

Other common law legal jurisdictions use jury trials only in a very select class of cases that make up a tiny share of the overall civil docket ( e. g. defamation suits in England and Wales ), while true civil jury trials are almost entirely absent elsewhere in the world.

In England and Wales ( which have the same legal system ), minor criminal cases are heard without a jury in the Magistrates ' Courts.

In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890-1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to " Person of Unsound Mind ", an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness.

The legal system is therefore similar to the common law systems used in England and Wales and in other Commonwealth countries.

The Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery in London started as ordinary inns where barristers met to do business, but became institutions of the legal profession in England and Wales.

Many of his government ’ s reforms were due to his Minister for Justice, John Maddison, and Attorney-General Sir Kenneth McCaw, who initiated the establishment of the Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the introduction of consumer laws, an ombudsman, legal aid, health labels on cigarette packs, breath-testing of drivers, limits on vehicle emissions, the liberalisation of liquor laws, and compensation for victims of violent crime.

The first Australian state to legalize this style of gambling was New South Wales in 1956 when they were made legal in all registered clubs in the state.

The primary reason for this is that gaming machines have been legal in the state of New South Wales since 1956 and over that time the number of machines has grown to 97, 103 ( at December 2010, including the Australian Capital Territory ).

* July 30 – Birth of legal aid in England and Wales.

* February 16 – The Court of Appeal of England and Wales rules that the Sunday Times can publish articles on Thalidomide and Distillers Company, despite ongoing legal actions by parents ( the decision is overturned in July by the House of Lords ).

Under his son, Henry VIII of England, the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542 were passed, integrating Wales with England in legal terms, abolishing the Welsh legal system, and banning the Welsh language from any official role or status, but it did for the first time define the England-Wales border and allowed members representing constituencies in Wales to be elected to the English Parliament.

Bodily harm is a legal term of art used in the definition of both statutory and common law offences in Australia, Canada, England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions.