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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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (redirect from Lord Chancellor Thurlow)
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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Court of Chancery (redirect from Lord Chancellor's Pension Act 1832)
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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Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth (redirect from Lord Chancellor Cranworth)
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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Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (redirect from Lord Chancellor Macclesfield)
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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Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (redirect from Lord Chancellor Ellesmere)
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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Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg (redirect from Lord Irvine of Lairg)
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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