And often when a bill is being discussed during the Commons it comes to the Lords, the Lords makes some amendments to it hopes to make improvements.

Arrangements for the House of Lords are very different, as the House of Lords is the unelected revising chamber.

In the old days the House of Lords was as powerful as the House of Commons.

The House of Lords is, if you like, supportive in that the House of Lords scrutinises, advises and makes changes if possible to the amendments which come from the House Commons.

I exercised my right to be tried before the House of Lords.

Now people may ask why should the House of Lords exist?

We have debates in the House of Lords which are on topics of general interest.

Many times the Commons approve of what the Lords have done and accept the amendments many times they will not, so they change it back again.

If you could not persuade the House of Lords then they effectively had a right of veto.

And then they reach the House of Lords.

The House of Lords, the appointed chamber charged with amending and revising legislation, and the Monarch, who is the Head of State.

It is through a document called Hansard, which is a verbatim account of every single deliberation in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

It comes back again to the Lords the Lords will look at it again.

I do. Milords and gentlemen...

Milords and gentlemen, this sitting is adjourned.

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.

And for a period the monarchy was abolished indeed for a short time the House of Lords was abolished.

The big power that we have in the House of Lords is really to make the government think again.

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

To divert the noble lords and ladies of Paris.

Nobly ridden, my lords.

I took the Energy bill through the House of Lords, and a number of amendments I proposed were not accepted by the Government.

My lords and gentlemen, I charge treachery.

As Baroness Valerie Amos, Leader of the House of Lords and President of the Council of the United Kingdom, speaking on behalf of the Presidency of the European Union, so succinctly stated at this meeting

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.

Why, some of those lords have to scrounge around for a living.

While a small number are made up of hereditary or religious representatives, the majority of Peers are appointed to the House of Lords for their expertise in one or more areas.

When a bill is introduced into Parliament it goes through many stages, both in the House of Lords, where I sit, and in the House of Commons.

Shortly after Mr. Smith became a FlLMCLUB classic, there was a week of all night filibustering in the House of Lords.

Milords and gentlemen, we have ships, brave captains and fine crews.

Your fulminations, milords and gentlemen... are full of bilge and blather.

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.

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.

Journalists are free, as indeed anybody is, to contact a Member of the House of Lords and ask them about what is happening in the chamber, seek their views and request interviews.

In August, a delegation of six United Kingdom parliamentarians, comprising one member of the House of Lords and five members of the House of Commons, visited the Territory as part of a tour of Caribbean countries and Territories.

My lords and gentlemen... if you'll appoint me messenger, I'll take this matter to the king.

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.

The important thing perhaps to remember in the House of Lords, unlike in the House of Commons, is that there is time to do this because we have no time limit on our debates.

In the House of Lords any single Member can propose an amendment to a bill and it has to be debated and looked at.

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.

You can tell these lords and gentlemen... they can rest easy in their plush chairs, Sir Henry.