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| | Lord Chancellor's Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Lord Chancellor until recently possessed the ultimate right to appoint judges to the judicial system of the United Kingdom. | | | The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department. | | | This is no longer the case - see the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chancellor's_Department
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| | Lord Chancellor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Lord Chancellor is the Speaker (presiding officer) of the House of Lords. | | | The Lord Chancellor is a member of the Privy Council and of the Cabinet. | | | The office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland was abolished, and its duties transferred to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chancellor
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| | LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR - LoveToKnow Article on LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR |
| | Under the Judicature Act 1873 the lord chancellor is a member of the court of appeal, and, when he sits, its president, and he is also a judge of the High Court of Justice. | | | His judicial patronage is very extensive, and he is by usage the adviser of the crown in the appointment of judges2 of the 2 Except the lord chief j6stice, who is appointed on the nomination of the prime minister. | | | As a great officer of state, the lord chancellor acts for both England and Scotland, and in some respects for the United Kingdom, including Ireland (where, however, an Irish lord chancellor is at the head of the legal system). |
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http://84.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LO/LORD_HIGH_CHANCELLOR.htm
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| | The Lord Chancellor is president of the Supreme Court, a member (ex officio) of the Court of Appeal and he serves as well as president of the Chancery Division. | | | The Lord Chancellor also sits as a member of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (the appellate court of last resort) and as member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. | | | Thus the Lord Chancellor is one of the judges charged with the duty of sometimes determining whether a government policy (in which he may have participated) violates the Convention. |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/woodhouse.htm
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| | {Lord justice general}, or {Lord president}, the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. | | | {Lord lieutenant}, a representative of British royalty: the {lord lieutenant of Ireland} being the representative of royalty there and exercising supreme administrative authority; the {lord lieutenant of a county} being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county. | | | A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. |
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http://www.beetfoundation.com/words/l/lord.html
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| | Secondly, the Lord Chancellor is an appointment of the Prime Minister and is a member of the Cabinet. | | | The Lord Chancellor wears ceremonial robes including a tri-corn hat, which is placed on the Woolsack when he presides over the House together with one of the Maces of his office. | | | Finally the Lord Chancellor presides over the House of Lords in its capacity as a court and is entitled to sit on appellate committees. |
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http://www.explore.parliament.uk/Parliament.aspx?id=10067&glossary=true
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Peers bar lord chancellor removal |
| | The lord chancellor is the country's senior judge, a government minister and speaker of the House of Lords. | | | Lord Goodhart, for the Liberal Democrats, proposed the alternative name of secretary of state for justice. | | | Former law lord Lord Lloyd said the prime minister should be free to appoint whoever he wanted to run the courts. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3891567.stm
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Controversy over historic changes |
| | Lord Falconer has now confirmed that he is to be the last Lord Chancellor and that legislation will be passed to create a supreme court and an independent body to create judges. | | | But the decision to scrap the lord chancellor's post and establish a supreme court to replace the House of Lords as the UK's highest court was welcomed by civil rights campaigners. | | | Critics of the previous arrangement always attacked the fact the Lord Chancellor was both a member of the government and head of the judiciary with the power to appoint judges. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2986914.stm
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| | House of Lords votes to maintain status quo on Lord Chancellor role - 8 December 2004 |
| | The Lords voted by 229 votes to 206 that the Lord Chancellor should be a member of the House, and by 215 votes to 175 that the role should be held by a lawyer. | | | The House of Lords yesterday (7 December) voted in favour of maintaining the centuries-old tradition that the Lord Chancellor be both a lawyer and a member of the Upper Chamber of Parliament. | | | Lord Phillips, as well as Beachcroft Wansbroughs’ senior partner Lord Hunt of Wirral, voted in favour of both amendments. |
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http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=113212&d=11&h=24&f=46
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| | His career of several decades as he served in the capacity of Attorney General, Chief Justice, and Lord Chancellor, "was marked by a contempt for the rabble, severity in handling rioters and rebels,...and for the liberty of the press." | | | Lord John Campbell, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV (London: John Murray, 1849), p. | | | Imperious and aristocratic, Hardwicke handed down law so successfully that, according to Lord Campbell's 1849 history of the Lord Chancellors, only three of his decrees were ever appealed against and none were ever reversed. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7023/clandestine.html
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| | Lord Chancellor |
| | The Lord Chancellor acts as Speaker of the House of Lords, may preside over the Court of Appeal, and is head of the judiciary. | | | Under Edward III the Lord Chancellor became head of a permanent court to consider petitions to the king: the Court of Chancery. | | | UK state official, originally the royal secretary, today a member of the cabinet, whose office ends with a change of government. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0011055.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Peers snub Commons by refusing to abolish lord chancellor's office |
| | The House of Lords last night raised the tempo of its constitutional feud with the Blair government, by voting against abolition of the ancient office of lord chancellor in a deliberate snub to the modernisers' agenda. | | | They had begun with his fellow hereditary peers and now decided it was time to "vapourise" the law lords and the lord chancellor. | | | Though a barrister, the prime minister appeared unaware that his friend, Lord Charlie Falconer QC, could not simply be changed into a modern secretary of state for constitutional affairs without a great deal of prior legislation. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1260905,00.html
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| | History of Penn Law - Medallions and Inscriptions |
| | In 1733 Yorke was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, becoming Lord Hardwicke; in 1737 he succeeded Talbot as Lord Chancellor. | | | Born in Dover on December 1, 1690, Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke and Lord Chancellor of England, was the son of Philip Yorke, an attorney. | | | He remained Lord Chancellor until the resignation of Newcastle as Prime Minister in 1756, retiring at that time. |
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http://www.law.upenn.edu/about/history/medallions/hardwicke
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| | CNN.com - Former Lord Chancellor dies - October 14, 2001 |
| | Lord Hailsham served as Lord Chancellor from 1970 to 1974, and again from 1979 to 1987. | | | The current Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, said in a statement: "Throughout his long life, Lord Hailsham transcended politics and the law as no modern Lord Chancellor has done. | | | For a succession of Conservative Prime Ministers, he served as a trouble-shooter -- First Lord of the Admiralty in the Suez crisis, Tory party chairman in the morale-shattered aftermath and Britain's representative in the talks that led to the first nuclear test ban treaty in l963. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/10/14/uk.hailsham
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| | Lord Chancellor |
| | The Lord Chancellor is currently promoting two Bills in the House of Lords and has taken a leading role in the introduction of Human Rights legislation. | | | It is a commonplace that it is not the gorgeously dressed members of the House of Lords and their splendidly uniformed attendants who bear the true power of modern democratic Britain, but the soberly clad commoners who cluster at the bar of the House to listen to the Queen& Speech. | | | This two-part article deals with the office of the Lord Chancellor, and proposals for its reform, following the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in McGonnell v United Kingdom. |
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http://www.spr-consilio.com/lordchance.html
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| | Catalogue of Lord Chancellor Eldon's Law Books |
| | Of the King, his prerogative of possession or his ancient and established revenue: Of the Royal Family: Of the House of Lords: Of the House of Commons: Of the Privy Council and great officers of state: Of the Courts of Justice: Of inferiour Courts. | | | The practice in the House of Lords, on appeals, writs of error, and claims of peerage, with a compendious account of dignities; to which is prefixed an introductory historical essay-on the appellate jurisdiction. | | | The Lord Chancellor’s speech in the House of Lords, on Thursday 15 |
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http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/special/eldon/catalogue.html
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| | Iolanthe by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan |
| | The result of Lord Eldon's long term of office as Lord Chancellor was that he outlived all ex-Lord Chancellors and, with the exception of Lord Redesdale, ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland, he could find no one to sit with him in the House of Lords, the United Kingdom's final Appeal Court. | | | He presides over the House of Lords when it hears appeals from inferior Courts, he is President of the Court of Appeal though he never has time to sit there, the Chancery Division takes its very name from him, and it is on his advice that the judges are appointed by the Crown. | | | There seems little doubt that Gilbert had a particular Lord Chancellor in mind, namely John Scott, Lord Eldon, who, after two years as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, was Lord Chancellor from 1801-1806 and 1807-1827, some 25 years in all, the longest term of office of any Lord Chancellor of England. |
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http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/iolanthe/html/intro.html
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| | The Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Baron Alexander Irvine of Lairg |
| | Alastair Irvine - the 25-year-old son of Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine of Lairg, a member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government - was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to six charges in a deal with prosecutors. | | | Lord Alexander Irvine of Lairg, the Queen& Counsel, who was hired by Hin Chew, has now become Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and a member of the British Cabinet. | | | In June 2003, Tony Blair swept away 1,400 years of constitutional history in a Cabinet reshuffle which paved the way for the abolition of the office of Lord Chancellor and the creation of a supreme court. |
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http://www.escapefromparadise.com/NewFiles/ai.html
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| | Guardian The lord chancellor |
| | Is that the lord chancellor is a bulwark of the constitution; an essential link between executive, parliament, and judiciary. | | | Others go further: a report from the Economic and Social Research Council last year called for the office of lord chancellor to be abolished, and replaced with a minister of justice accountable to the Commons. | | | Background: The lord chancellor & the constitutional framework |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4139192-103701,00.html
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| | Lord Chancellor Pension (Anne McIntosh MP) |
| | The Lord Chancellor's pension is based on his salary at the time of leaving office. | | | The Lord Chancellor's pension arrangements are set out in the Lord Chancellor's Pension Act 1832 and the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 as amended by the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991. | | | At present, this salary is linked to that of the Lord Chief Justice, but the Senior Salaries Review Body has been asked to review the remuneration of the office of Lord Chancellor. |
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http://www.commonsleader.gov.uk/output/page248.asp
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| | JIMMY AKIN.ORG: America's Lord High Chancellor |
| | The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain is not only head of the judiciary, but also a cabinet minister and presides over the House of Lords (I have not kept up with the proposals to change the UK judiciary, but they all seem to envision reducing the Lord Chancellor's current role). | | | The costume which inspired Chief Justice Rehnquist, an acknowledged Gilbert and Sullivan fan, is worn by the Lord Chancellor, a character called upon to settle a dispute among a colony of fairies [SOURCE]. | | | Feb 24, 2005 9:18:07 PM And Rehnquist is NOT the "Lord High Chancellor" of the United States. |
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http://www.jimmyakin.org/2005/02/americas_lord_h.html
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| | Hulbert’s Case, the Lord Chancellor and Censorship of the Internet |
| | We remind the Lord Chancellor’s Department that decisions of the House of Lords in the cases of Derbyshire County Council v. | | | The page that the Lord Chancellor thought to be offensive involves a series of open letters to the Lord Chancellor made by a certain James Hulbert, 67, from Hull, who has "identified five judges who had presided over a series of cases in which Mr Hulbert claims he was denied justice." | | | Hulbert’s Case, the Lord Chancellor and Censorship of the Internet |
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http://www.cyber-rights.org/documents/hulbert.htm
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| | Victorian Women Writers Project |
| | No; the judge is her judge; the Lord Chancellor himself is her judge; the House of Lords is her judge. | | | The poor man makes a new marriage, not having divorced his wife in the House of Lords; his new marriage is null; his children are bastards; and he himself is liable to be put on his trial for bigamy: the allotted punishment for which crime, at one time was hanging, and is now imprisonment. | | | The speech of Lord Thurlow converted Lord Eldon; the principle was admitted by all; and the Bill of Divorce was granted to the complaining wife. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/letter.html
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| | Concordat between the Scottish Executive and the Lord Chancellor's Department |
| | The structure and composition of the House of Lords Appellate Committee (the final Court of Appeal for Scottish civil law). | | | The Lord Chancellor has responsibility within Government for developing central co-ordination of tribunal questions in England and Wales and, in association with him, the Scottish Ministers exercise corresponding responsibility in Scotland. | | | The Lord Chancellor determines the duration of appointments after consultation with the Scottish Ministers |
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/concordats/lcd-00.asp
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| | The House of Commons - Committee on the Lord Chancellor's Department Reports |
| | The Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thoroton, QC, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor, and Sir Hayden Phillips, GCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs | | | Uncorrected Evidence presented by The Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thornton, QC, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor, and Sir Hayden Phillips, GCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs, on 30 June 2003 | | | The Rt Hon Lord Irvine of Laing QC, a Member of the House of Lords, Lord Chancellor, and Sir Hayden Phillips GCB, Permanent Secretary, Lord Chancellors Department |
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http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmlcd.htm
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| | Lord Chancellor |
| | Lord Falconer is an old school friend of Prime Minister Tony Blair. | | | The new minister is Lord Falconer, who said on radio this morning that the department would not apoint Judges under the 'old school tie system'. | | | The post of Lord Chancellor is to be abolished upon the retirement of Lord Irving, the present incumbent. |
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http://www.mj0110199.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Jan04/Lord_Chancellor.html
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| | Victorian Women Writers Project |
| | 492,) where the Lord Chancellor appointed a guardian for the infants in lieu of their own father; the case of Blisset (Lofft. | | | There are other, more technical objections, such as the number of judges who were to have this power of decision; which Lord Lyndhurst met, by stating it to be his intention to confine the power to the three Equity Judges. | | | "What," said Lord Brougham, "is to be the security, that the wife will not run away with the children?" How is this to be guarded against? |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/norton/plain.html
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| | Lord Chancellor |
| | the highest judicial officer of the British crown: law adviser of the ministry, keeper of the great seal, presiding officer in the House of Lords, etc. Also called |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/Lord+Chancellor
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| | FictionPress.Com Story : Dragondust |
| | “What?” Lord Blacklight sprang from his chair, his fists clenched. | | | “Damn that foolish boy!” Lord Blacklight filled a second glass and emptied it down his throat. | | | As the knocks on his door continued, the Lord Chancellor sighed, placed his quill in the inkstand and straightened his shoulders as he sat up on the heavy oaken chair. |
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http://www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1863604
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| | Northern Recruitment Group - Lord Chancellor |
| | The Sentencing Advisory Panel is an independent advisory and consultative body constituted under sections 80 and 81 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. | | | Under the Criminal Justice Bill which is currently before Parliament, a new Sentencing Guidelines Council will be established to take over responsibility for issuing sentencing guidelines. | | | The Panel has also provided advice on the setting of minimum terms (formerly known as tariffs) in murder cases, which formed the basis of a practice statement by the Lord Chief Justice. |
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http://www.nrgplc.com/lordchancellor
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| | Lord Chancellor |
| | Now we are told the Lord Chancellor is acting AT LAST. | | | Consider the responses citizens get from the Lord Chancellor's department and or office. | | | newsflash on 19 May 1999 the Lord Chancellor announced steps were being taken against cowboy lawyers who USE refugees and abuse the Legal Aid facilities........ |
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http://www.human-rights.freeservers.com/lordchancellor.htm
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| | JURIST - Paper Chase: Lord Chancellor approves legality of royal wedding |
| | Lord Falconer acknowledged that different courts had stated different interpretations of the Marriage Act in the past, but said that those opinions had been 'overcautious' and that the UK government was satisfied that Lord Falconer's interpretation of the Act was correct. | | | Wes Rist at 10:40 AM ET Lord Falconer [official profile], the Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom and the nation's highest legal officer, issued a written statement Wednesday that he was satisfied that the Marriage Act of 1949 allowed for the Royal Family [official website] to have civil ceremony weddings. | | | JURIST - Paper Chase: Lord Chancellor approves legality of royal wedding |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/02/lord-chancellor-approves-legality-of.php
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| | NPR : Britain May Eliminate Lord Chancellor Post |
| | The Lord Chancellor heads Britain's high court, appoints all of the country's judges, is speaker of the House of Lords and a member of the cabinet. | | | All Things Considered, June 18, 2003 ·; British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a grilling in the House of Commons over proposed reforms that would eliminate the office of Lord Chancellor, a position legal analysts say presents a conflict of interest. | | | NPR : Britain May Eliminate Lord Chancellor Post |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1302948
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| | Lord Chancellor's Department Committee Houses of Parliament |
| | The Committee’s remit also covers other departments for which the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs (and Lord Chancellor) is responsible to Parliament, namely, HM Land Registry, the Public Record Office, and the Northern Ireland Court Service. | | | The Committee was established in January 2003 to examine the expenditure, policy and administration of the Lord Chancellor's Department and associated public bodies. | | | Welcome to the homepage of the Committee on the Lord Chancellor's Department. |
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http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/lcdcom.cfm
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| | UK's Lord Chancellor to inspect defamation on the web |
| | But now the Lord Chancellor, Derry Irvine, the boss of our UK prime minister Tony Blair, and who apparently still refers to the kid born in 1954 as "Young Blair", wants to start an inquiry into libel on the Web. | | | The move follows a decision by a High Court judge in former English penal colony Australia that someone who lives in the State of Victoria can go ahead and sue Dow Jones, even though an article was published out of Wall Street. | | | And when you get to the High Court, the cabbie is likely to say "Sorry mate, we don't take €5,000,000 bills here in Britain. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6785
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| | Lord Chancellor |
| | These arrangements are headed by the three criminal justice Ministers (the Lord Chancellor, the Home Secretary and the Attorney General), and are underpinned by officials from their three Departments. | | | Following the Comprehensive Spending Review of the criminal justice system, new cross-Departmental arrangements have been established for the planning and implementation of criminal justice initiatives. | | | The Court Service will be playing a full part; |
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http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm42/4273/lc.htm
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| | Pepys' Diary: Lord Chancellor |
| | Top > Government and Law > Government > Lord Chancellor | | | Here’s some information on the Lord Chancellor’s position in the House of Lords: http://www.explore.parliament.uk/search/data.asp?r=67 | | | Phil on Fri 21 Feb 2003, 11:04 am |
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http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/296.php
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| | AskOxford: Lord Chancellor |
| | • noun (in the UK) the highest officer of the Crown, presiding in the House of Lords, the Chancery Division, or the Court of Appeal. |
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http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/lordchancellor?view=uk
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| | GF Choco's Lord Chancellor - For sale by Ann Arbor Alpacas |
| | Chancellor is following in the footsteps of his champion sire, Alianza Peruvian Choco. | | | For more information on Lord Chancellor, see his page on our site. | | | You can find GF Choco's Lord Chancellor and the entire sales list from Ann Arbor Alpacas on AlpacaNation at www.alpacanation.com/annarbor.asp. |
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