Sentences with phrase «law lords»

He has been master of the rolls, lord chief justice, and senior law lord.

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

2007: Law lords rule that the most restrictive aspect of the control order regime — the 18 - hour curfew — is a breach of human rights.

It is of tremendous concern that a majority of law lords in this case is content to afford blanket protection / immunity to social workers, thereby adding to the immunity enjoyed by existing categories of professionals, ie doctors and police, for making well - intentioned but negligent mistakes in child protection investigations, on the pretext of protecting children from their allegedly abusive parents.

I had also read a study by Professor Alan Paterson in which he interviewed a number of law lords.

Lord Bingham, a former law lord, said the advice had two major flaws.

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.

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.

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.

Lady Hale said the «proudest day» of her entire professional life was when she was sworn in as «the first and, regrettably, only woman ever» Law Lord at the House of Lords.

Now in its thirty - second year, the competition was judged by a panel chaired by Lord Millett (recently retired Law Lord) and including Professor Vaughan Lowe (Chichele Professor of Public International Law at Oxford and door tenant at Essex Court Chambers) and Bernard Eder QC (a leading commercial silk from Essex Court Chambers).

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

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.

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.

The consequences of the interaction between the common law action for breach of contract and its associated remedies and the newer statutory claim for unfair dismissal and the remedies available from the tribunal have been described by various law lords as «awkward», «unfortunate» and «anomalous» and in need of «urgent attention by the legislature».

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

A Lord Chancellor, acting in his absolute discretion, could make a strategic decision on advancement — as Lord Irvine did when he appointed Lord Bingham senior law lord.

Unlike the other law lords, however, he was more willing to question the «width of the statutory prohibit ion» which he described as «remarkable».

In R v Horncastle and Others [2009] UKSC 14, seven law lords unanimously refused to follow ECtHR jurisprudence on the exact point in issue.

The judgment drew heavily on a number of opinions by Lord Hoffmann, the former Law Lord.

Security minister Lord West has told peers terror suspects could come off control orders because of a new ruling by the law lords.

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.

In October that year, it was decided unanimously by nine law lords that the 1949 Act had been used by the House of Commons in accordance with the law.

The last time it was used was to ban hunting with dogs, but a legal challenge by the Countryside Alliance prompted the law lords to judge that the Act itself was only suitable for general legislation.

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

«Whatever Eric Pickles says, I'm afraid the law lords will have the last word.

The law lords have today ruled that foreign evidence that might have been obtained under torture is not admissible in British courts.

The law lords have today overturned a ruling allowing four men who claim to have been tortured by Saudi Arabian officials to sue for compensation.

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.

The law lords made the ruling on the principle of common law; that the defendant has the right to see his accusers.

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.

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.

However, in today's review, Lord Falconer reveals that the law lords can not overrule primary legislation - such as the 2001 anti-terrorism act - and as such the government can pass anything they believe is in the interests of national security, regardless of whether it is in accordance with the ECHR.

The government has also clashed with the judiciary in its efforts to tackle terrorism - the law lords ruled that the detention of terror suspects without charge at Belmarsh prison under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 contravened the ECHR.

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.

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 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.

Towards the end of its passage through Parliament, the Health and Social Care Bill was amended so as to reverse the decision of the law lords in YL v Birmingham CC [2007] UKHL 27, [2007] 3 All ER 957.