Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The House of Lords [a] is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [5] Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. [6] One of the oldest extant institutions in the world, its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century. [7 ...
Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 (some of whom have been elected to the House after being removed from it in 1999), and remaining law life peers.
The following are lists of members of the House of Lords: List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
Lords Spiritual: Vivienne Faull (Bishop of Bristol) 20 October 2018 Lords Spiritual: Labour: Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor [cv] 26 November 2018 Life peeress Conservative: Nicola Blackwood, Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford [cw] 4 February 2019 Life peeress Lords Spiritual: Libby Lane (Bishop of Derby) 11 February 2019 Lords Spiritual: Green
The divorce court, in the above case, granted the earl an injunction preventing his former wife from using his title; however, this was overturned by the Court of Appeal, and this was confirmed by the House of Lords, on the grounds that ordinary courts of law lacked any jurisdiction in matters of honour. [12]
Irish and Scottish Peers did not have an automatic seat in the House of Lords unlike their English and British counterparts, until the Peerage Act 1963 which granted all Scottish Peers (those without Imperial status) to have an automatic seat in the House of Lords until the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and Peers to disclaim their own ...
The leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging ... The title seems to have come into use some time ...
In 2003, following the decision to disaggregate the roles performed by the Lord Chancellor (originally Prime Minister Blair's aim was to abolish the office altogether), a select committee of the House of Lords looked into the proposed new office of its presiding officer, including the title for the elected speaker of the Lords.