Sentences with phrase «law lord»

Lord Justice Neuberger has been appointed as a Law Lord, following the retirement of Lord Nicholls this week.

Lord Hope retired in June, having served as a Law Lord or Justice for 17 years.

A relatively young, widely respected lord justice of appeal tipped to become a future law lord and perhaps even master of the rolls, he suddenly found himself catapulted into criminal proceedings, accused of being little better than a dirty old man in a mac.

Until a president is appointed, the senior law lord is entitled to exercise the rule - making powers of the court.

Lord Bingham, the senior law lord, has launched a consultation on the rules governing practice and procedure in the new Supreme Court, which is due to begin work in October 2009.

Well, she was the first female law lord to be appointed to the House of Lords in 2004.

Lord Mance (with whom one law lord agreed), while concurring in the result, disagreed that a new term had been introduced.

That is the result of the lived experience of being a judge for 20 years and a Law Lord or Supreme Court Justice for 10.»

Lord Bingham's impressive career in law saw him take the role of master of the rolls, lord chief justice of England and Wales and senior law lord.

It should have some people on it who really know what they are talking about when it comes to Britain's half - written constitution and complex political system: people like the former senior law lord Thomas Bingham, the Oxford constitutional expert Vernon Bogdanor, and the lawyer and veteran political activist Helena Kennedy.

The Nolan report, commissioned by the cardinal in 2001 and drawn up by the retired Roman Catholic law lord, led to a stringent set of guidelines to prevent child abuse in the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

In these laws the Lord plays no direct role.

Ministers have previously acknowledged flaws in the system, which was introduced under the Terrorism Act 2005 after the law lords ruled the indefinite detention of terror suspects without charge at Belmarsh prison was unlawful.

But the law lords said it is unlawful to have prayers on the agenda.

The law lords ruled the conviction of Londoner Iain Davis for a double murder in Hackney in 2002 was unlawful because of the crucial role of anonymous witnesses in his trial.

However, the law lords today rejected this claim.

Law lords are expected to rule later today on whether a police force breached the human rights of a witness shot dead before he could give evidence at a trial.

In their ruling, the law lords said state immunity was not something Britain could choose to abandon or relax at its discretion.

Senior law lords have expressed doubts that a minister with political ambition should also be lord chancellor.

The government will rush emergency legislation through the Commons today as it seeks to override a law lords ruling on witness anonymity in criminal proceedings.

Mr Starmer had been forced to publish the guidelines after the law lords called on him to clarify the factors for and against prosecution in a judgement on the Debbie Purdy case.

«Especially some of the law lords.

The issue of assisted dying came before the law lords some two years ago as a result of a case brought by Debbie Purdy, who has an incurable disease.

The director of public prosecutions was instructed by the law lords to draw up guidelines indicating the various factors for and against prosecution in such cases.

At the moment all peers are appointed, apart from the 92 hereditary peers who survived the first phase of Lords reform during Tony Blair's first term in office, and Church of England Archbishops and Bishops and the law lords.

The law the lords are tasked with protecting, as audiences will find, is more to contain existing wealth than anything close to satisfaction for Michael Kohlhaas.

The law lords ruled that actual knowledge includes turning a deliberate blind eye and not asking when one suspects something.

The other law lords who heard the appeal were also agreed that it should be dismissed.

As reported by The Times of London, five law lords unanimously ruled in favor of a public - interest defense that more closely resembles the «actual malice» standard applied in U.S. libel cases involving public officials and public figures.

Having decided that the information did relate to the children, the law lords» next consideration was whether or not the children could be identified from the data requested in its barnardised form.

In reaching their decision, the law lords considered whether the ramp was part of the employer's undertaking and whether it was provided to the employee by the employer or by someone else with the employer's consent.

In Smith v Northamptonshire County Council [2009] UKHL 27, the law lords held that a local authority was not liable for the injury of a care worker when using a defective wheelchair ramp at a client's home.

The law lords held that the CSA continuing to hold other such information did not necessarily mean that the «barnardised information» remained personal data.

Using the definition of what constitutes «personal data» under the DPA 1988, the law lords first consideration was whether or not the data in question related to the children.

The law lords said this was a matter for Parliament.

The law lords said legislation was needed to allow WAOs to continue.

«The law lords did not rule out the possibility that evidence could be given anonymously in all circumstances, but they did rule it out where the case depends solely or to a decisive extent upon the statements and testimony of anonymous witnesses.

However, the law lords held that Mr Corr's illness was a direct result of his employer's negligence — the employer owed Mr Corr a duty of care, and the breach of that duty caused him injury, both physical and psychological.

The law lords were the highest court in the land and the Lord Chancellor, who was the head of the judiciary, sat in the House of Lords.

By a majority of three to two, the law lords held that damages should be quantified at the date on which they are assessed and that the court should not ignore events that have occurred after the date of repudiation.

Singh will argue that Aberdare Girls» School breached the Race Relations Act 1976, the Equality Act 2006, and the Human Rights Act 1998, as well as a 25 - year - old law lords» decision allowing Sikh children to wear items representing their faith, including turbans, to school.

Although the owner asserted that damages should be assessed at the date of acceptance of the repudiation, the law lords found that this method of assessment will not always put the compensatory principle into effect and should not be applied if it will not achieve that result.

In response, the law lords made it clear that the compensatory principle is paramount in assessing damages: damages should represent the value of the contractual benefits of which the claimant has been deprived — no less but also no more.

Like the other law lords who heard the appeal, he was of the view that it should be dismissed.

The law lords have been asked to consider the legality of the orders, which were introduced under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 and allow a suspect's freedom to be curtailed although they have not been charged or tried in open court.

The High Court decision follows hard on the heals of the House of Lords» decision [2008] UKHL 6; [2008] 2 WLR 311, [2008] 2 All ER 1, of 30 January 2008, where the law lords effectively changed the law, (reversing a previous House of Lords» ruling in Stubbings v Webb [1993] AC 498, 1993] 1 All ER 322, which held that claims arising from intentional assaults were governed by s 2 of LA 1980), and held that an intentional assault fell within LA 1980, s 11, and was therefore subject to a three - year limitation period, which could be extended by reference to knowledge (s 14), or at the court's discretion (s 33), rather than under LA 1980, s 2, which while providing for a more generous six - year limitation period, was nevertheless not extendable in any circumstances by the court.

However, the law lords ruled that courts should look to the patent claims and not the specification to identify the inventive step and determine obviousness.

R v Kennedy [2007] UKHL 38, [2007] All ER (D) 247 (Oct): in this case the question certified by the Court of Appeal Criminal Division for the opinion of the law lords neatly encapsulates the question raised by this appeal: «When is it appropriate to find someone guilty of manslaughter where that person has been involved in the supply of a class A controlled drug, which is then freely and voluntarily self - administered by the person to whom it was supplied, and the administration of the drug then causes his death?»

The argument was rebuffed and, despite Campbell reaching the European Court in MGN Ltd v United Kingdom [2011] ECHR 39401 / 04, the domestic courts have remained faithful to the finding made by the law lords (see Moore - Bick LJ in Sousa v London Borough of Waltham Forest Council [2011] EWCA Civ 194 (paras 54 and 55)-RRB-.

However, the law lords found Moore Stephens not liable, on the basis Stojevic's conduct was to be treated as that of the company, and therefore the loss Stone Rolls claimed arose from its own fraudulent activities.