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	Charlie Falconer
		Charles Leslie Falconer, Lord Falconer of Thoroton (born November 19, 1951) is a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.
		Educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond[?], and Queens’ College[?], Cambridge, Charlie Falconer became a flatmate of Tony Blair when they were both young barristers in London in the early 1970s.
		Falconer remained Lord Chancellor while the process to abolish the office was started, but announced his intention not to use the Lord Chancellor's power to sit as a judge.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Charlie_Falconer.html (312 words)

	Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, PC, QC (born 19 November 1951) is a British barrister and Labour Party politician.
		In May 1997 Blair became Prime Minister and Falconer was made a life peer as Baron Falconer of Thoroton, of Thoroton in the County of Nottinghamshire (he was the first peer created on Blair's recommendation), and joined the government as Solicitor General.
		Falconer announced his intention not to use the Lord Chancellor's power to sit as a judge and stopped wearing the traditional robe and wig of office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlie_Falconer (523 words)

	Falconer v. Adams (3/26/99), 974 P 2d 406
		Falconer claimed that he was forced to stop because he saw Adams's car on Seventh Avenue facing him in the wrong lane of traffic.
		Taylor-Welch argued that Falconer had not prevailed and that he was not entitled to prejudgment interest "on the subrogated medical pay lien amount," since his bills had been paid by State Farm and he had never lost the use of the money awarded by the jury.
		Falconer argued before the trial court, and argues on appeal, that in the absence of evidence that the $5,000 paid by State Farm was the same $5,000 awarded by the jury the reduction should be made from the whole claim.
	www.touchngo.com /sp/html/sp-5096.htm (5372 words)

	John Kampfner :: author, broadcaster & commentator
		The deal is that they reach an agreement by 24 June, and Falconer says he wants the legislation to have passed both houses by next February.
		Falconer himself will be plain old Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, with no wigs and no silly hats and eventually no woolsacks to sit on.
		Falconer accepts that next month's elections will be "difficult" and that turnout is likely to be pitifully low.
	www.jkampfner.net /articles/ns100504.html (1434 words)

	Justice for Mineworkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The decision to form the UDM was voted on its conception by the Notts miners in the summer of 1985 and inaugurated 6th December 1985.
		Lord Falconer was engaged in his then role as a barrister to advise Sir Ian MacGregor, brought in to run the coal board, on how to handle miners who defied their union leader, Arthur Scargill.
		Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Privy Councillor (born November 19, 1951), is a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.
	freespace.virgin.net /terry.norm/newsletter_may2005.htm (1212 words)

	Chicken Yoghurt: Protest too much
		Falconer: Well, you describe that as depriving this country of freedom of speech which is hugely overdone.
		Falconer: The idea that you take a measure which is a public order measure, designed to protect our Parliament building as depriving people of freedom of speech is ridiculously overdone, if I may say so.
		Falconer's got a nerve quoting the Human Rights Act, since the Government he's a senior legal figure in keeps breaking it and has made threatening noises about scrapping it if it gets in their way (Michael Howard would have scrapped it straight off, bless him).
	chickyog.blogspot.com /2005/12/protest-too-much.html (2293 words)

	Falconer v. Adams (4/6/01) sp-5384
		INTRODUCTION Charlie Falconer sued Karla Taylor-Welch and Donald Adams because of a motor vehicle accident.
		Falconer's attorney filed a notice of an attorney's lien for attorney's fees and costs of $18,583 on any judgment in favor of Falconer.
		Falconer responds that Adams is a judgment creditor who needed to garnish the judgment in favor of Falconer before the attorney's lien attached, rather than a party whose rights supercede the attorney's lien.
	www.touchngo.com /sp/html/sp-5384.htm (1539 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Lordly heights for Blair's friend
		Charlie Falconer was a childhood friend of the prime minister and the pair later shared a London flat in the early days of their legal careers.
		Lord Falconer's biography clearly explains his close personal links with Mr Blair, but the relationship between the two men got off to a rocky start.
		They shared a passion for rock music, and Lord Falconer is still proud of the fact that he can tell you the names of the B-sides of practically every hit single of the 1960s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2984844.stm (673 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| No English parliament - Falconer
		Lord Falconer admitted devolution has created a "clear anomaly", but said it has to be resolved in "a way that most promotes the union".
		Lord Falconer agreed there was a "distinctive English agenda" in some policy areas but said it was "critical" to preserve the United Kingdom.
		But because 80% of the population of the UK was English there was "absolutely no need for the sort of protection for the Scots and the Welsh by having their own parliament or assembly," he argued.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4792120.stm (744 words)

	Spinwatch - Falconer ?piled on pressure? to make Iraq war legal
		The insider said that Lord Falconer, a friend of Blair and now lord chancellor, urged Goldsmith to change his original view that war would be illegal.
		Falconer, then a Home Office minister and formerly a lawyer, was allegedly dispatched by Blair to try to address Goldsmith?s private concerns.
		Grieve said that as a Home Office minister for criminal justice at the time, Falconer should not have been involved in any discussions with the government?s most senior law officer about the war?s legality.
	www.spinwatch.org /content/view/890/9 (900 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Victims' families 'must have say'
		Lord Falconer told the North of England Victims' Association those who lost loved ones to crime were in effect handed life sentences.
		Lord Falconer said it was right that the law - as explained in the 2003 Criminal Justice Act - distinguished between severities of murder.
		Lord Falconer said the fact the families of those killed could never see their loved ones again meant they were in effect handed a life sentence.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/5112340.stm (600 words)

	Charlie Falconer: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charlie Falconer: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		...Charlie Falconer Charlie Falconer Charles Leslie Falconer, Lord Falconer of..., Cambridge, Charlie Falconer became a flatmate of Tony Blair when they were both young....
		...Derry Irvine, Blair 's mentor, with Charlie Falconer, one of his best friends, gave Blair 's opponents a further...
	www.encyclopedian.com.cob-web.org:8888 /lo/Lord-Falconer.html (501 words)

	Fury Erupts At Blair's 'Botched' Reshuffle
		But officials were unable to say whether he would devote one day a week to Scotland and the rest to trying to improve the country's overcrowded road and rail links.
		To the surprise of peers, he briefly took his place on the Woolsack in the House of Lords dressed in the gown and wig of the Lord Chancellor.
		Lord Falconer appealed yesterday to be judged on his merits and not as one of Mr Blair's "cronies".
	www.truthout.org /docs_03/printer_061503I.shtml (615 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		If it is true that Charlie Falconer stole Tony Blair's girlfriend when both were public school sixth-formers in Edinburgh, then the Prime Minister has been making his old mate pay for it ever since.
		Lord Falconer of Thoroton, who grew close to Tony Blair after bumping into him again on the steps of a Temple chamber, believes that the Act's effect will be dramatic.
		It is "very important" – he emphasises the words with a raised tone in his mildly Scottish accent and a shake of his hand – that it is implemented according to its spirit and not obstructed by efforts to dilute or distort its intentions.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/01/nfalc101.xml (1069 words)

	A Highly Placed Confidant
		The reason for the fiasco is a lawyer, one Charlie Falconer, once upon a time a flatmate of Tony Blair's.
		It was Falconer who gave mixed signals about the legality of the royal wedding, and it's Falconer who is playing a canny game assisting the royal haters.
		Falconer only tried for elective office once and, having failed rather miserably, decided to rely on something even more deeply rooted in British history than royalty, patronage.
	www.royaltymonarchy.com /opinion/articles/taki2.html (751 words)

	The Tin Drummer: Charlie Falconer is a Winnit in the Crack of Democracy
		Charlie Falconer is a Winnit in the Crack of Democracy
		Whatever you think of the arguments around an English Parliament it stretches the limits of hypocrisy for an unelected member of a supposedly radical government to lecture us on whether it would be good for democracy or not.
		The man is an affront to democracy, an old style feudal lord dispensing nuggets of received wisdom and truth to the ignorant masses on behalf of his own liege lord.
	thetindrummer.blogspot.com /2006/10/charlie-falconer-is-winnit-in-crack-of.html (445 words)

	The UK Today - Your government<br>
		The Lord Chancellor, Charlie Falconer, was yesterday accused of contempt for trying to suspend Judy Weleminskey for submitting written evidence to MPs regarding deficiencies at Cafcass.
		Her crimes were, in Falconer's words, failure to observe confidentiality and failure to behave in a corporate manner.
		So from that we can assume that Charlie likes to encourage a climate of dishonesty where any failings are to be covered up by hiding evidence from MPs.
	www.theuktoday.co.uk /2004/04/your_government.html (230 words)

	story 1
		Everybody's favourite Lord Chancellor, Charlie Falconer, has incurred the wrath of the profession once more by advocating that all legal aid work should be auctioned off to the lowest bidder.
		Skinflint Falconer announced the plans as part of his contribution to Gordon Brown's plans to knock £21 billion off Whitehall spending.
		In total, Falconer aims to cut £292 million from his budget, including an initial £173 million from the legal aid bill.
	www.rollonfriday.com /story125.htm (243 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		COMMON sense suggests it would be unwise for a Prime Minister to select as his Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs a man with whom he once shared a flat, a crony without obvious qualifications for the job.
		Charlie Falconer, his wife's gay war hero uncle and a [pounds sterling]6m lost legacy; lord Chancellor misses out as entire country estate is left to brother-in-law.
		Lord Falconer's wife Marianna was, after all, the niece of the dead man - gay war hero Myles Thoroton Hildyard - and the couple had spent most weekends at their cottage on the edge of his estate at Flintham Hall in Nottinghamshire.
	www.solicitorsfromhell.com /hound-dog.htm (227 words)

	doctorvee » Gordon Brown and Charlie Falconer have their say (pt. 3)
		Gordon Brown and Charlie Falconer have their say (pt.
		I wrote to Blair the week after the election and Lord Falconer a couple of days after the “no groundswell” incident and I’ve yet to receive a word back from either.
		I was going to write to my MP but I though I’d wait and see if I could post the question to her new blog (if it ever appears).
	doctorvee.co.uk /2005/06/10/gordon-brown-and-charlie-falconer-have-their-say-pt-3 (639 words)

	ninme: Good Lords
		After the Labour landslide of 1945, something was invented called the Salisbury-Addison Convention - named after the Tory and Labour leaders of their parties in the Lords at the time - which ensured that any government manifesto commitment would not be obstructed by the Tory-dominated Lords.
		There are, though, in these arrangements something subtly different from what Charlie is proposing, and something infinitely more constitutional and democratic.
		The House of Lords has, in the past century or so, always been a far wiser and less partisan body than the House of Commons.
	www.ninme.com /archives/2006/04/good_lords.html (457 words)

	Law in a Box Newswire
		Even the stars seem to be on Falconer’s side with roly poly astrologer, Russell Grant, advising Scorpio Falconer that the next six weeks being crucial for his sign to take the initiative and change things for the better.
		Background: Famous for being Tony Blair’s best mate, Charlie Falconer was by the ‘90s raking in around £500,000 pa as a commercial law barrister.
		Married to a fellow barrister with four kids, he wanted to stand as an Labour MP in 1997 but was knocked back because he refused to take his kids out of fee-paying school.
	www.lawinabox.net /lbnewswire23k.html (1186 words)

	The Virtual Stoa » Blog Archive » ID
		Because if the government can’t even keep their database of an simple e-mail consultation straight, maybe they shouldn’t be trusted with a universal database after all.
		Now visit stand.org.uk for a user-friendly way of recording your opinion and communicating it to Charlie Falconer.
		Nick points out [14.1.2003] that the BBC has noticed…, and [16.1.2003] that over 3,700 people have now been in touch with Charlie F, so that “Unless there’s been some vote-stuffing by sinister forces, he should now have somewhere under 1/5th of 5000+…” agreeing with him.
	virtualstoa.net /2003/01/12/87310635 (343 words)

	Third Avenue: Our love of government
		Amusingly, earlier this evening on Radio4 Question Time, Lord 'Charlie' Falconer disputed Jonathan Dimbleby's assessment of an audience vote as being 'overwhelmingly' opposed to the the introduction of ID cards, whether compuslory or 'voluntary' (both questions had already been posed by Dimbleby of the live audience).
		Lord Falconer had earlier made the bold statement that surveys had 'regularly' showed that most were in favour of the introudction of ID cards.
		Interestingly one of the other panellists was the political editor of 'The Sun' newspaper who stated that the policy of his newspaper was, generally, to support the introduction of ID cards - he even used the hoary old justification 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear'.
	thirdavenue.typepad.com /third_avenue/2006/01/our_love_of_gov.html (727 words)

	Fresh doubts are raised over the legality of Iraq conflict : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He told Lord Falconer of Thoroton, then a Home Office minister, and Baroness Morgan, Mr Blair's director of government relations, that he believed an invasion would be legal without a new United Nations Security Council resolution, according to Mr Sands.
		The book claims that Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan summarised Lord Goldsmith's views in the parliamentary written statement issued in his name.
		Yesterday, Downing Street struggled to explain why it would not disclose Lord Goldsmith's full advice on the day that Lord Falconer, now the Lord Chancellor, published his legal advice on the Royal marriage.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/02/1711422.php (420 words)

	Little Man in a Toque: Never tell an Englishman that he can't do something (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lord Chancellor, Charlie Falconer's, remarks that there is 'absolutely no need' for an English parliament; that 'there is no demand at all' for English-only votes, and; that 'there's no evidence that they [the English] resent the fact that there...
		The Lord Chancellor, Charlie Falconer's, remarks that there is 'absolutely no need' for an English parliament; that 'there is no demand at all' for English-only votes, and; that 'there's no evidence that they [the English] resent the fact that there is no English parliament', have stirred up something of a shitstorm.
		The very fact that Falconer feels the need to rule out an English parliament is the signal that it is on its way.
	www.toque.co.uk /blog/archives/2006/03/never_tell_an_e.php (1652 words)

	On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Here's Tony's Crony Lord Falconer on the executive being held to account by the courts...
		The Lord Chancellor will denounce the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba as a "shocking affront to the principles of democracy" in a speech due to be delivered today.
		Lord Falconer of Thoroton is expected to voice the most outspoken criticism of American anti-terror policy yet made by a senior minister, in a keynote speech to an audience of Australian senators, MPs, judges and academics at the Supreme Court in Sydney.
	blogs.cjb.net /dissident/88552 (797 words)

	Public Polls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I do adore Charlie Falconer, our genial and companionable Lord Chancellor, and I especially admire his line in jokes.
		In other words - and I bet we all find this rib-ticklingly witty - the Celtic fringe can continue to interfere in our affairs at Westminster, voting on matters that do not affect them, while English MPs are banned from voting on theirs.
		Since the English taxpayer subsidises these people hugely, the whole thing is, in fact, even more hilarious than Charlie lets on.
	www.loveengland.org /publicpolls.html (216 words)

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