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    The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom...
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    vacant, the lord chief justice of the King's Bench would act as chancellor pro tempore. The last lord chief justice to serve in this way was Lord Denman in...
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  • First Lord of the Treasury, the Prime Minister, at 10 Downing Street, in London. The Lord Chancellor (Lord High Chancellor, King's Chancellor) is one...
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  • The Lord Chancellor of Scotland, formally titled Lord High Chancellor, was a Officer of State in the Kingdom of Scotland. The Lord Chancellor was the...
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  • The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of...
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  • The following is a list of lord chancellors and lord keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of commissioners...
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  • The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department answerable to the Lord Chancellor with jurisdiction over England and Wales...
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    The shadow lord chancellor is a member of the British Shadow Cabinet shadowing the lord chancellor, an office which has existed since the Norman Conquest...
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    Until 2005 the lord chief justice was the second-most senior judge of the English and Welsh courts, surpassed by the lord chancellor, who normally sat...
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    allowing the position to be held by someone other than the Lord Chancellor. The Lord Chancellor continued to act as speaker of the House of Lords in an interim...
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    vacant. The Lord Chancellor (formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain) is the most senior of the Great Officers other than the Lord High Steward...
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    opposed to the Great Seal of the Realm, which is in the care of the lord chancellor) until the use of such a seal became obsolete. Though one of the oldest...
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    when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers...
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    succeeded as Lord Speaker by John McFall, Lord McFall of Alcluith, who is the incumbent Lord Speaker. This reform of the post of Lord Chancellor was made...
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    infants. Its initial role differed somewhat: as an extension of the lord chancellor's role as Keeper of the King's Conscience, the court was an administrative...
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    The Lord High Steward is the first of the Great Officers of State in England, nominally ranking above the Lord Chancellor. The office has generally remained...
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  • up Lord Chancellor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. For constitutional office-holders called Lord Chancellor, see Lord Chancellor of France Lord Chancellor...
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    The Chancellor of France (French: Chancelier de France), also known as the Grand Chancellor or Lord Chancellor,[citation needed] was the officer of state...
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    the Judiciary of England and Wales from the office of Lord Chancellor. The office of Lord Chancellor was reformed to remove the ability of the holder to...
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    was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He twice served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Born at Cranworth, Norfolk, he was the elder son...
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    First Lord is held by the Prime Minister. The office is not the United Kingdom's finance minister; this role is instead held by the Chancellor of the...
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    (held by the First Minister since 2011) List of lord chancellors and lord keepers Lord Chancellor Lord Privy Seal Rogers, R. (2012). Who Goes Home: A Parliamentary...
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    3 April 2006, the Lord Chief Justice has been the overall head of the judiciary. Previously they were second to the Lord Chancellor, but the judicial...
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    1951) is a British Labour politician, peer and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Prime Minister Tony Blair...
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    1710 he refused the office of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, but was made a Privy Counsellor. The office of Lord Chief Justice fell vacant in 1710...
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    a tactical resignation as Chancellor to try to secure his position on armed forces expenditure, but the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, accepted his resignation...
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    Lord Ellesmere from 1603 to 1616, was an English nobleman, judge and statesman from the Egerton family who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for...
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  • Present usage: Lord Chamberlain Lord Chancellor Lord Commissioner of Justiciary Lord High Admiral Lord Justice Clerk Lord Marshal Lord mayor Lord of Council...
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  • as Derry Irvine, is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor from 1997 to 2003. He founded and headed 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers...
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  • R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 is a UK labour law and UK constitutional law judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. It held...
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