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Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission (since 2023), former chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (1994–2002), former Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford (2001–2004), former professor of law at Gresham College, former chair of the Bar Standards Board
Until 2009, the Lords Temporal also included the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, more commonly known as Law Lords, a group of individuals appointed to the House of Lords so that they could exercise its judicial functions. Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were first appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.
The commission does not vet for propriety the appointments of Lords Spiritual (Church of England bishops), or the excepted hereditary peers who sit in the House of Lords by virtue of the House of Lords Act 1999. The commission was established in May 2000 to assist the transitional arrangements for reform of the House of Lords.
She sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer. [22] [23] Her appointment, at the age of 30, made her the youngest member of the House of Lords. [24] She was the youngest person ever to receive a life peerage until Carmen Smith, Baroness Smith of Llanfaes, was appointed at the age of 27 in 2024. [25] Owen was introduced to the Lords on ...
Under the House of Lords Reform Bill 2012, proposed by the Coalition Government, the Lords would be either 80% elected and 20% appointed, or 100% elected. In the former case, there would be 12 Church of England bishops in the reformed upper house. [ 11 ]
It assumed the judicial functions of the House of Lords, which had been exercised by the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (commonly called "Law Lords"), the 12 judges appointed as members of the House of Lords to carry out its judicial business as the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.
The court comprises a president, a deputy president and 10 (puisne) justices, for a total of 12 judges, of which — by convention — nine are from England and Wales, two from Scotland, and one from Northern Ireland. At the court's creation, 10 judges were appointed from the House of Lords, and one was appointed directly to it.
The Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary office in gross post among the Cholmondeley, Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby and Carington families.. In 1902 it was ruled by the House of Lords that the then joint office holders (the 1st Earl of Ancaster, the 4th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and the Earl Carrington, later Marquess of Lincolnshire) had to agree on a deputy to exercise the office, subject ...