Sentences with phrase «peer voted number»

Mr. Gomez was peer voted number 1 personal injury lawyer for 2015 and 2016.

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The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

Seeing large numbers of Labour peers commit in public to voting for 100 % reform and no filibustering.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

Peers have voted to block the reduction in the number of MPs in the House of Commons by 50, calling for a delay until a boundary review in 2018.

Peers from the across the political spectrum (but notably many Liberal Democrats) voted for a number of measures which guarded against the plans, including giving judges, not Ministers, the say over the use of the secret trials.

A large number of Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers, including many former Tory ministers of Margaret Thatcher's government, voted with the opposition.

The number of MPs voting for him last year have risen from six to 10 (16 if you add non-voting members, peers and Harrriet Harman who abstained as acting Leader), those who voted for his brother are down from eleven to ten (plus non-voting Kendall).

An equal number of students to adults on the school board are elected to represent their peers at every meeting, in every committee, and throughout every function of the school board with a full vote.

Best Lawyers is based on submissions by almost 5 million attorneys in the United States who confidentially evaluate the legal abilities of their professional peers; lawyers are selected as a «Lawyer of the Year» only if the number of votes received «indicates a clear leader» in the field.