At that time, I was a member of the Opposition Front Bench or Shadow Government in Britain s House of Lords.

The then Conservative leader, William Hague, immediately expelled me to the back benches.

5 British Overseas Territories Bill, Explanatory Notes, House of Lords, 26 June 2000.

This Parliament consisted of the King of Ireland, who was the same person as the King of England, a House of the Lords and a House of Commons.

Labour wants to reduce the House of Lords membership by half and hold referenda on making it wholly elected and on changing the voting system.

A new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into being in October 2009 to replace the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.

Thomas Bingham, former Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord of the United Kingdom, proposed a somewhat more expansive, though clearly compatible, definition.

2010 arrest In August 2010, he spoke at a conference at the British House of Lords, at which he criticized Bahrain's handling of human rights issues.

The House of Lords has 139 women (19.7 ), while there are 125 women (19.4 ) in the British House of Commons.

Harding, the Queens Advocate in 1854 Britain, wrote that by the Law of Nations War abrogates all Treaties between the belligerents. The British blockade of Zanzibar in 1873 was considered by Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty in Britain as an act of war that would annul the Treaty of 1845 between Britain and Zanzibar.

Anne was in favour of the measure, and forced George to vote for the bill in the House of Lords, even though, being a practising Lutheran, he was an occasional conformist himself.

The Bill received its third reading in the Lords on 21 July, but the Labour government fell in August and the Bill was lost.

In the communication, the author cites as applicable a decision of the House of Lords of 17 December 1998, ILM Vol. 38 (1999), which discusses the principle that a man may not be a judge in his own case as applied in a case where a judge is in fact a party to the litigation and where the behaviour of the judge gives rise to a suspicion that he is not impartial.

There's a bit of randomness here too because, when I was beginning Independent Diplomat, I went to a party in the House of Lords, which is a ridiculous place, but I was holding my drink like this, and I bumped into this guy who was standing behind me.

She was the first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords, and was one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

LONDON From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members of Britain s House of Lords and I am one of them will be required to sign a written commitment to honesty and integrity.

The most influential Muslim woman in British politics, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (also the Conservative Party chairperson), joined other Muslims in the House of Lords, such as Lord Ahmed, the most senior Labour peer, and Baroness Kishwer Falkner, a Liberal Democrat.

The old aristocracy not only dominated the House of Lords, but also used its influence to get relatives, friends, and family retainers elected to the House of Commons by exploiting a key institutional weakness the existence of rotten boroughs that could be bought and sold.

On the lexicographic point, opponents of same sex marriage are surely right. Historically, marriage has not been, as one peer described it, an elongated envelope, into which any expression of love and commitment can be packed.

John s efforts to raise money to regain lost lands in France exceeded the usual taxes and levies that the nobles had accepted from his predecessors. The king seized the estates, and sometimes the person, of wealthy lords or merchants and demanded hefty payments for their release.

In a report released last March, the UK s House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs cited disagreement among experts on the issue, with estimates ranging from a 0.5 boost to annual GDP growth in recipient countries to no effect on growth at all.

The arguments on both sides have been of high quality, especially in the House of Lords. But, as I have sat and listened to the debate, I cannot help wondering what a break it is in human history for so much intellect and feeling to be focused on such a small matter as the state s withholding of a word, marriage, but not its substance.

The arguments on both sides have been of high quality, especially in the House of Lords. But, as I have sat and listened to the debate, I cannot help wondering what a break it is in human history for so much intellect and feeling to be focused on such a small matter as the state s withholding of a word, marriage, but not its substance.