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    Whilst the House of Lords of the United Kingdom is the upper chamber of Parliament and has government ministers, for many centuries it had a judicial function...
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    abolition of the judicial functions of the House of Lords, although it retained the provisions that established the High Court and the Court of Appeal....
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    House of Lords, as a committee of the House, effectively to exercise the judicial functions of the House of Lords, which included acting as the highest...
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    Lords performed judicial functions through the law lords. The Parliament of the United Kingdom is one of the oldest legislatures in the world, and is characterised...
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  • list of the last Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and other Lords of Appeal before the judicial functions of the House of Lords ended in 2009. As of 30 September...
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    among the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (the judges who exercised the judicial functions of the House of Lords). The current President is Robert Reed, since...
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  • the United Kingdom. The House of Lords thus lost its judicial functions. At the time of creation, the 12 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (the Law Lords)...
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    separation of the judicial functions of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords from the legislative functions of the House of Lords should be made...
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  • legislature the legislature has the right to alter or abolish any of the judicial organs of that state. See Judicial functions of the House of Lords as an example...
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  • 1953 as the manor was under corporate ownership at the time. Judicial functions of the House of Lords List of trials of peers in the House of Lords "Chapter...
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  • Kingdom of the judicial functions of the House of Lords. The court comprises a president, a deputy president and 10 (puisne) justices, for a total of 12 judges...
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  • by the House of Lords itself, but by its Judicial Committee, consisting of up to nine legally qualified peers, generally referred to as "Law Lords". On...
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  • Committee of the House of Lords in the UK; see Judicial functions of the House of Lords This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    through the judicial functions of the House of Lords this appeared to have little effect in practice. In 1713 a case (Magistrates of Elgin v. Ministers of Elgin)...
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    judicial functions of the House of Lords, which were removed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. The twelve Lords of Appeal in Ordinary became judges of the...
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    The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster...
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    replacing and assuming the judicial functions of the House of Lords. Devolution issues under the Scotland Act 1998, Government of Wales Act and Northern...
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    enabling the government to suspend laws in a state of emergency Constitutional Reform Act 2005, transferring the judicial functions of the House of Lords to...
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  • for life. Under the terms of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which transferred the judicial functions of the House of Lords to the new Supreme Court...
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    Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (category Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning the House of Lords)
    removed the functions of Speaker of the House of Lords and Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales from the office of Lord Chancellor. The office of Lord...
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    president of the Chancery Division. In modern times, these judicial functions were exercised very sparingly. The functions in relation to the House of Lords and...
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  • appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Law Lord) and became a Justice of the Supreme Court when the judicial functions of the House of Lords were transferred...
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    Scots law (redirect from Law of Scotland)
    Lords as the highest civil court having taken over the judicial functions of the House of Lords and the Privy Council from 2009. Sheriff Courts also act...
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    Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 (category Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning the House of Lords)
    repealed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which transferred the judicial functions from the House of Lords to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom...
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    Impeachment (category Political terminology of the United States)
    review, while the privilege of peers to trial only in the House of Lords was abolished in 1948 (see Judicial functions of the House of Lords § Trials), and...
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    taking over the judicial functions of the House of Lords. A decision of the Supreme Court is binding on every other court in the hierarchy, which must follow...
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    the existence of this right of appeal has been criticised. This debate also spilled into the debate as to whether the judicial functions of the House...
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    which alters the structure of the House of Lords to separate its judicial and legislative functions. For example, the legislative, judicial and executive...
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  • its judicial functions Lords of Appeal, members of the House of Lords who exercised its judicial functions, but who were not appointed under the Appellate...
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    with the cessation of the judicial functions of the House of Lords since then) makes it unlikely that a similar honour will be granted in future on the strength...
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