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	Judicial functions of the House of Lords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As lower courts were established, the House of Lords came to be the court of last resort in criminal and civil cases, except that in Scotland, the High Court of Justiciary remains the highest court in criminal matters.
		The House of Lords appointed a Committee for Petitions.
		"The Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords." (2003).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judicial_Committee_of_the_House_of_Lords (4597 words)

	House of Lords
		In British politics, the House of Lords is the unelected upper house of the United Kingdom Parliament.
		The House of Lords is unique in combining both legislative and judicial functions in the one body: it is both the upper house of Parliament and the highest court of appeal for England (though it is only ad-hoc).
		The House of Lords is presided over by the Lord Chancellor, the Government minister in charge of the Lord Chancellor's department which includes partial responsibilty for the administration of the British judicial system.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ho/House_of_Lords.html (867 words)

	Talk:House of Lords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has a list of the areas in which the Privy Council is the highest court - mainly appeals from Commonwealth countries and a few specialist areas like devolution law and appeals from the Ecclesiastical Courts.
		A Joint Committee was established in 2001 to resolve the issue, but it reached no conclusion and instead gave Parliament five options to choose from (fully appointed, twenty per cent elected, forty per cent elected, fifty per cent elected, sixty per cent elected, eighty per cent elected, and fully elected).
		(a) Hereditary members of the House of Lords who were members before the reform of 1999; (b) the eldest child of a member of the House of Lords; (c) peers of Ireland; (d) Privy Councillors; (e) the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and (f) Black Rod.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:House_of_Lords (2512 words)

	Judicial Committee of the House of Lords
		For example, the Lords were asked to decide whether General Pinochet who was the former head of state of Chile had state immunity from prosecution on torture charges when he was detained in the United Kingdom.
		The Law Lords are the highest court in England, but they have traditionally had no power to declare laws invalid or unconstitutional, as do supreme courts elsewhere, though the under British constitutional law principles they could declare a law to be inoperable as being contrary to the laws of the land.
		The senior judge is the Lord Chancellor who is also head of the House of Lords and a minister in the government — it is powerful constitutional position.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Law_Lords.html (348 words)

	ipedia.com: Judicial functions of the House of Lords Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Judicial Committee's domestic jurisdiction is very limited, hearing only cases on the competency of the devolved assemblies in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales.
		In 1621, the House of Lords resumed its judicial role when King James I; sent the petition of Edward Ewer, a persistent litigant, to be considered by the house of Lords.
		In criminal cases, the House of Lords may hear appeals from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and the Court-Martial Appeal Court.
	www.ipedia.com /judicial_functions_of_the_house_of_lords.html (4287 words)

	House of Lords - Information on Judicial Business
		The House of Lords is the final court of appeal on points of law for the whole of the United Kingdom in civil cases and for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in criminal cases.
		Statement by the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary—Recommendation 59 of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords.
		Information on the Judicial Work of the House of Lords—the jurisdiction of the House, the Law Lords, procedure, and the history of the judicial role of the House.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld/ldjudinf.htm (335 words)

	A World to Win
		Lord Steyn: 'Judges are not the servants of the Government...
		Lord Steyn was born in South Africa, so has an idea of what it means to live in a country where the right to freedom of expression is rationed and civil protest is not tolerated.
		Lord Hailsham's appointment of Johan Steyn proved to be an enlightened one.
	www.aworldtowin.net /Steyn.htm (1304 words)

	Barker \| The Case Against Pinochet
		The House of Lords in its decision did not consider whether the result of this was that states are absolutely immune from the jurisdiction of the UK courts in respect of criminal acts or whether they have no immunity at all in respect of such acts.
		The House of Lords examined the negotiating history of the State Immunity Act and found that it had been intended to apply to heads of state whether or not they were, or had ever been, present in the United Kingdom.
		Lord Goff, in his dissenting judgment, argued that as the Torture Convention had not expressly removed the right of head of state immunity in the case of torture, such immunity remained.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_12/barker_pinochet.html (2425 words)

	Network of the Presidents of the supreme judicial Courts of the European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is intended to summarise the procedure for the admission of appeals to the supreme judicial courts of England and Wales.
		The Lords of Appeal comprise the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (or Law Lords), who are twelve judges equivalent to supreme court judges in other countries, the Lord Chancellor (the head of the judiciary) and any peer of Parliament who holds, or has held, any high judicial office.
		The Committee’s decision to allow or refuse a petition is made depending on whether the case involves a ‘point of law of general public importance’ in both civil and criminal cases.
	www.uepcsj.org /uk/rpcsjue.php?nopage=168 (3083 words)

	Department for Constitutional Affairs -
		For most legal cases in England and Wales, the House of Lords is the final point of appeal, although a small number of cases each year may be referred to the European Court of Justice, which has jurisdiction on matters of European Community law.
		All appeals to the House of Lords are about the meaning of the law, rather than the evidence in a case.
		The Law Lords also hear appeals from cases in Scotland and Northern Ireland; in addition, they sit as the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to hear appeals from those Commonwealth countries whose legal systems are still linked to the UK.
	www.dca.gov.uk /deprep0102/a01.htm (4520 words)

	UK/Chile: Whatever decision in the House of Lords, the UK has a duty to ensure Pinochet's guilt or innocence is ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Whatever the decision in the House of Lords, the UK has a duty to ensure Pinochet's guilt or innocence is determined by a court of law
		If the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords were to affirm the judgment of the High Court, the victims who have made applications to European Court of Human Rights in the cases of
		For this reason the House of Lords ruling and the decision taken by the Govenrment of the United Kingdom in this matter is crucial it will determine the rule of justice or that impunity for thousands of crimes committed during the military dictatorship is sealed.
	news.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGEUR450251998?open&of=ENG-CHL (2441 words)

	Discourse.net: October 24, 2003 Archives
		The judicial review committee of the House of Lords is the UK’s highest court, except that it isn’t technically a court.
		And in all cases except those which go to the Judicial Committe of the Privy Council, the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords is, in effect, the UK’s Supreme Court.
		Indeed, Prime Minister Tony Blair intends to take the Judicial Committee out of the upper chamber (the Law Lords are really Lords and they sit in the House of Lords — and even participate in debates relating to some legal matters), and replace it with a separate Supreme Court.
	www.discourse.net /archives/2003_10_24.html (2601 words)

	Transblawg: House of Lords upholds Human Rights Act
		Yesterday, the House of Lords held that imprisoning foreign terror suspects without charging them or trying them is against the European Convention on Human Rights.
		Lord Hoffmann, one of the panel of nine law lords, said: “[This case] calls into question the very existence of an ancient liberty of which this country has until now been very proud: freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention.”
		In response to government arguments that the anti-terrorism Act was necessary to protect the life of the nation, Lord Hoffmann said: “The real threat to the life of the nation … comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these.
	www.margaret-marks.com /Transblawg/archives/001175.html (886 words)

	The case of Augusto Pinochet: Timeline (continued) - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The UN Human Rights Committee states that the Chilean Amnesty Law of 1978 violates the right to have an effective remedy and is incompatible with the obligation of the state to investigate human rights violations.
		Although all the other charges were eliminated, in their ruling the Law Lords stated that under General Augusto Pinochet's government "appalling acts of barbarism were committed in Chile and elsewhere in the world: torture, murder and the unexplained disappearance of individuals all on a large scale".
		The UN Committee against Torture recommends to the UK government that the case of Augusto Pinochet "be referred to the office of the public prosecutor, with a view to examining the feasibility of and if appropriate initiating criminal proceedings in England, in the event that the decision is made not to extradite him".
	news.amnesty.org /pages/Pinochet_AR2000 (1232 words)

	UK National Audit Office press notice - Class VIII Vote 1 1994-95: Police, Criminal Injuries Compensation and Other ...
		These payments became irregular when a judgment of a Judicial Committee of the House of Lords ruled that the method, by which a tariff based scheme for criminal injury compensation had been introduced, was unlawful.
		The Court of Appeal ruling was upheld by a Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in April 1995.
		The effect of the House of Lords judgment was that all the compensation payments made under the tariff scheme in 1994-95 totalling £6.944 million were irregular.
	www.nao.org.uk /pn/appr4.htm (764 words)

	Gallery of Guns - Shooting Times - News Center
		It became law because, as ostensibly required by the 1911 Act, it was passed by the Commons and presented to the Lords for three successive sessions.
		Given the importance of the issues at stake, the matter would surely quickly ascend to the highest court in the land, that is the judicial committee of the House of Lords.
		In this way, the legal action may in effect restore to the Lords (albeit just the law lords rather than the whole house) to veto legislation apparently usurped by the Commons.
	galleryofguns.com /shootingtimes/articles/displayarticles.asp?id=6331 (1006 words)

	The Constitution of the UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Judicial Committee decides the case, but in form the decision is that of the whole House on report from the Committee.
		The sovereign legislature of the United Kingdom consists of the Sovereign and a bicameral Parliament composed of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
		There are also committees of the Houses which follow the work of the departments and question ministers and civil servants often making in depth enquiries into subjects of interest taking evidence from inside and outside government.
	www.eurolegal.org /britpages/ukconstset.htm (4628 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Concluding Observations/Comments - United ...
		The Committee welcomes the comprehensive information provided by the State party, and the inclusive participation in the reporting process of institutions and non-governmental organizations concerned with the protection of human rights.
		The Committee commends the exhaustive written responses provided to the List of Issues, as well as the detailed responses provided both in writing and orally to the questions posed by the members during the examination of the report.
		(d) the judgment of 24 March 1999 of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in the case of R.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CAT.C.CR.33.3.En?OpenDocument (1053 words)

	Howard could face charges over Iraq - lawyer
		In fact, Lord Goldsmith very clearly stated on 26th February, in response actually to the publication of my book, that the second document, the 17th March document, wasn't a summary of the first.
		She resigned because she said she could not be part of a government which was participating in what she called, the crime of aggression, an illegal war.
		But more significantly, her resignation letter confirmed that Lord Goldsmith changed his mind not just once but twice and his earlier view back in December or January 2003 was that an explicit Security Council resolution was needed and that resolution 14.41 which of course had been adopted in November 2002 was not adequate.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article9171.htm (2057 words)

	World Law: United Kingdom
		The Speaker of the House of Commons has a special place in the constitution of the United Kingdom.
		The House of Commons itself produces a whole series of factsheets on the work of the House of Commons, including one on the Speaker.
		Executive government rests nominally with the monarch but actually is exercised by a committee of ministers (cabinet) traditionally selected from among the members of the House of Commons and, to a lesser extent, the House of Lords.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/uk2.htm (1642 words)

	Cameras in Courtrooms: Debatabase - Debate Topics and Debate Motions
		In Britain the public are even allowed to attend the highest court in the land, the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, just as anyone can watch the Supreme Court of the United States in session.
		However, the courts which do so tend to be the courts of appeal, and the supreme courts, or in the case of Britain, the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.
		It would be extremely unlikely that a television channel would seek to cover these hearings, as they consist of dry legal argument, and feature none of the witnesses, the cross-examination or the emotive speeches to the jury that we would associate with courtroom drama.
	www.idebate.org /debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=27 (2297 words)

	UK Government insists on right to DNA profile juveniles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Grant Shapps is continuing with the national campaign, “Children off the National DNA Database”[1] which he launched to oppose the creation of a national DNA database by stealth.
		The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Andy Burnham): I am today placing in the Libraries of both Houses recently issued guidance from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to Chief Officers on the consideration of applications for the removal, in exceptional circumstances only, of DNA and fingerprints from the respective databases.
		That change in legislation was itself challenged by judicial review and in July 2004 a judicial committee of the House of Lords found that the retention of DNA samples and fingerprints in these circumstances was proportionate and justified.
	www.privacyinternational.org /article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-528460 (914 words)

	Royal Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of Britain's most distinguished judges, Lord Slynn of Hadley, will be a keynote speaker at a dinner next week celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court.
		Tickets are being sold by the Centenary Committee for $150 and may be purchased by calling 292-1350, ext.
		Gray, a prominent criminal defence lawyer, and Lord Slynn of Hadley, a distinguished member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords and the Privy Council.
	theroyalgazette.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050625/NEWS/106250124 (212 words)

	U.K.: Law Lords Rule Indefinite Detention Breaches Human Rights (Human Rights Watch, 16-12-2004)
		The Judicial Committee of the House of Lords ruled by a majority of eight to one that indefinite detention discriminates on the grounds of nationality (article 14 of the ECHR), because it applies only to foreign nationals suspected of terrorism, despite a comparable threat from terrorism suspects with U.K. nationality.
		They also held that the suspension of human rights was unjustified because indefinite detention powers that apply only to some of those who pose a threat cannot be said to be “strictly required”—the legal test for suspending rights.
		The judgment of the Law Lords follows a growing chorus of U.K. and international criticism against indefinite detention, including by the Privy Counsellor Review Committee (“Newton Committee”) and Joint Human Rights Committee of the U.K. Parliament, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, and most recently by the United Nations Committee against Torture.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/12/16/uk9890.htm (596 words)

	Judicial Work - Judgments \| Houses of Parliament
		The links on this page take you to texts of judgments delivered by the House of Lords and other material related to the Law Lords and their work.
		of House of Lords Judgments delivered since 14 November 1996 are available in both Html and Pdf from our web pages.
		of House of Lords Judgments are available from the Judicial Office, House of Lords, London SW1A OPW (telephone 020 7219 3111; fax 020 7219 2476).
	www.parliament.uk /judicial_work/judicial_work5.cfm (144 words)

	Judicial Work - Information \| Houses of Parliament
		Here you can find further information on the Judicial work of the House, the Law Lords and the historical role of the House in judicial matters.
		The House of Lords is the highest court in the land - the supreme court of appeal
		The Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords
	www.parliament.uk /judicial_work/judicial_work.cfm (395 words)

	The World Trade Law association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Finally, the edited papers of speeches delivered at its Annual Conferences are published in the WTLA Yearbook series (published by Cameron May).
		The Association is chaired by The Lord Slynn of Hadley,WTLA President, a member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, and a Former Justice of the European Court of Justice.
		The Secretariat of the WTLA is provided by Clyde and Co and general enquiries should be addressed to the WTLA Secretary Mr Philip Ruttley, Head of the EC and WTO Group.
	www.wtla.org (207 words)

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