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	Lord Wakeham
		Lord Wakeham is a chartered accountant and served as a minister in Government from 1979 to 1994.
		On Thursday 16 April, Lord Wakeham was formally installed as the new Chancellor of the University amidst pomp and ceremony in the Howell Lecture Theatre.
		Lord Wakeham stressed his commitment to the self-regulation of the press in order to ensure its preservation.
	www.brunel.ac.uk /about/hongrads/1998/wakeham (533 words)

	Wakeham faces bankruptcy - Telegraph
		LORD Wakeham, the former Tory minister facing potential financial ruin as a director of Enron, the collapsed American energy company, was further embroiled in the scandal last night when the board was accused of a "fundamentally flawed" decision.
		Lord Wakeham, who has been named in litigation by 430 former Enron staff seeking to recover hundreds of millions of pounds from their pension funds, was consulting his American lawyers.
		Lord Wakeham, who has temporarily vacated his position as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission because of the affair although he is still being paid his £156,000 salary, is expected to be called before Congress to give evidence.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/04/nwake04.xml (479 words)

	Princess Diana: British Editors Back Tough New Privacy Code
		Motorbike chases, stalking and hounding are unacceptable," Lord John Wakeham, the head of Britain's Press Complaints Commission, told a news conference.
		Britain's press is self-regulating and the bark of Wakeham's watchdog is worse than its bite.
		Because the market for paparazzi photos is a global one, Wakeham said he intended to canvas international support for an international standard for dealing with the problem.
	www.gargaro.com /diana/privacycode.html (628 words)

	Enron: John Wakeham
		Lord Wakeham asserted his authority by speaking directly to the paper's proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, who gave Piers Morgan, at that time editor of the News of the World, a public dressing down.
		In the mid-90s, Lord Wakeham was preoccupied with the relationship between the tabloid press and the royal family - a relationship that came to a head with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
		On 8 February 1999 the Royal Commission, chaired by Lord Wakeham, was appointed to consider the role and functions of the second chamber and the method or combination of methods of composition.
	www.apfn.org /enron/wakeham.htm (1876 words)

	REVOLT Newsletter 110 enron
		Lord Wakeham, the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, may be called to give evidence to the United States Senate committees investigating the £55bn collapse of Enron, the American energy corporation.
		Lord Wakeham was a member of Enron's audit and compliance committee, whose responsibility it was to see that proper procedures were put in place, including legal advice and auditing.
		Lord Wakeham, who was with the director of the company for eight years has not made a public statement regarding his involvement in Enron and he has not yet been asked to appear at any Senate hearings.
	www.revolt.co.uk /news110.html (1942 words)

	Lord Wakeham online \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		As to the suggestion that an elected Lords could still be overruled by the Parliament Act, the reality is that it would be very difficult to justify a situation in which one elected House of Parliament had to give way to another elected house.
		An elected House of Lords would have the same source of democratic authority as the Commons and that would be a recipe for damaging constitutional conflict.
		We had to consider whether it was out of the question for the reformed Lords to continue to be the highest court of appeal in the country.
	www.guardian.co.uk /lords/Story/0,,190339,00.html (2944 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / Enron
		Lord Wakeham, who was an Enron board member, detailed his concerns in discussions between his attorneys and Enron lawyers conducting an internal investigation of the company's collapse.
		Lord Wakeham, a former accountant, built a reputation under former prime minister Margaret Thatcher as one of the Conservative party's shrewdest political fixers.
		"Wakeham was fascinated that Arthur Andersen was able to finish the audits in a short period of time, especially since the transactions were so complex and there [were] a number of transactions," Lord Wakeham's lawyer told investigators, according to the summary.
	specials.ft.com /enron/FT3KCLGL1ZC.html (331 words)

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		LORD WAKEHAM, the former Tory Cabinet minister who chairs the Press Complaints Commission, may have to give evidence to the United States Senate on his role in the collapse of Enron, the American energy company.
		Lord Wakeham, a former Energy Secretary who oversaw Enron's entry into the British energy market in the early 1990s, is reported to have been subpoenaed by the Senate governmental affairs committee, along with with 50 others with connections to the company.
		Lord Wakeham, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, has been a paid non-executive director of Enron for eight years.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/14/nenron14.xml (489 words)

	Everything about Billy Bragg
		Lord Wakeham's royal commission are due to make their recommendations before the end of the year and leaks to the press have led to pessimism about how far the reforms will go.
		Yes, the House of Lords had the right, under our constitution, to challenge the Commons over legislation, but this was always going to be a one sided contest because the lower house has a mandate from the people.
		It is because of such difficulties that Lord Wakeham appears to be favouring a mostly appointed upper house.
	www.billybragg.co.uk /words/words1.php?word_id=10 (839 words)

	Plans for second stage of House of Lords reform leaked
		The leader of the Conservative faction of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde, predicted that the prime minister would shelve the next stage of Lords reform because he has lost the argument for a fully nominated second chamber.
		Lord Wakeham, a former Tory Chief Whip, won the case for an elected component to the new Lords against the opposition of Gerald Kaufman, the senior Labour MP on the committee.
		It proposes that the Lords be given sweeping powers to act as “watchdogs” over the European Union, by setting up a committee able to summon cabinet ministers to justify agreements made at European summits and in other meetings in Brussels.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/nov1999/lord-n02.shtml (834 words)

	Euro fault linesEuropean Economic and Monetary Union
		House of Lords Reform and Ashdown and Bishops and Wakeham.
		It depends on the Commons, where Mr Blair has an impregnable majority; on the Lords, where the hereditary peers are still in a majority; and on the Royal Commission which is to be chaired by Lord Wakeham.
		Lord Butler has always appeared to see his task as that of helping the prime minister of the day successfully to surmount life's little difficulties.
	website.lineone.net /~mjb22/politicsplus14.htm (1150 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		Wakeham's proposals cover five main points: protection of children, discretion at times of grief, avoidance of harassment, a redefinition of privacy, and raising the threshold of public interest that would justify intruding on someone's privacy.
		Wakeham said he consulted members of the public, legislators and Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, who blames the tabloid press for her death and is campaigning for a privacy law.
		Wakeham is trying to get national and regional photo agencies to subscribe to the code - but it will not cover foreign agencies, the source of most paparazzi pictures.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1997/sep/09-26-97/news/news16.html (669 words)

	Privacy and the Press
		Lord Wakeham argued that privacy would be an issue unless "a once free press had been subjected to such stringent laws and penalties that it no longer dare report on matters of legitimate public interest" or the public loses "all interest in casting the odd glimpse into the secret world of those in the news.
		According to Lord Wakeham the answer to protection of privacy, accessible to the ordinary as well as the wealthy, is effective self regulation.
		Lord Wakeham views the Code of Practice administered by the PCC as central to self regulation.
	www.presscouncil.org.au /pcsite/apcnews/nov97/privacy.html (2040 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / Enron
		Lord Wakeham, the former Conservative energy secretary denounced by US union leaders because of his involvement in the Enron affair, resigned as chairman of the UK's Press Complaints Commission.
		Lord Wakeham is widely expected to face questions from US Senate inquiries into the company's collapse although he has yet to be subpoenaed.
		Lord Wakeham, 69, who has a string of directorships, was unavailable for comment on Wednesday and his office was not returning calls.
	specials.ft.com /enron/FT332DSH4XC.html (579 words)

	::The Wakeham Report::
		Lord Wakeham was commissioned by the Labour government to head a Royal Commission which was to present a report to the House of Commons on the possible second stage of reforms in the House of Lords.
		Wakeham recommended that the number of elected peers should be 65, 87 or 195 with his preference being 87.
		There is rancour that the position of Lord Chancellor is to be abolished and the traditional supremacy of the Law Lords is to be taken over by a proposed Supreme Court.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /wakeham_report.htm (864 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Wall Street fraud - Unions question Wakeham on Enron conduct (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LORD Wakeham’s troubles as a former director of Enron, the collapsed energy giant, threatened to multiply yesterday as British and American unions called for an an investigation of his conduct at the company.
		Lord Wakeham was a member of Enron’s board of audit and is a qualified chartered accountant.
		Lord Wakeham’s committee was specifically responsible for making sure shareholders were not misled by management, which is exactly what is alleged to have happened as the company collapsed.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=471&id=141612002 (969 words)

	Lords Hansard text for 5 Feb 1998 (180205-26)
		My Lords, my abiding recollection of this Bill will be attending the supervisions so ably administered by the noble Lord, Lord Lester, to the great satisfaction of us all.
		The noble Lord knows, and I am sure accepts, that the courts are not to set aside primary legislation under the Bill, but the principle of statutory construction is a strong alternative.
		Finally, the noble Lord, Lord Wakeham, was concerned at what he saw as the increased likelihood of injunctions against the press.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo980205/text/80205-26.htm (2511 words)

	PRINCESS DIANA, PRIVACY LAWS AND PRESS FREEDOM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, Part 2
		Lord Spencer, who also met Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, asked for privacy to be recognised as a fundamental human right and said it would be a fitting tribute to his sister if the old ways of tabloid journalism died with her.
		Lord Wakeham, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, unveiled a series of the most radical changes to press regulation since the inception of the Press Complaints Commission, including proposed rules about an individual's private life, the treatment of children and harassment.
		Lord Spencer demanded at Princess Diana's funeral that 'her beloved boys' should be protected from suffering a similar fate and he was backed up by the Prime Minister and Lord Wakeham, chairman of the Press Complaint Commission.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /law/hamlyn/diana.htm (2223 words)

	Parlianet - UK Parliament
		The House of Lords, with about 1200 members, is made up of the bishops of the Church of England and the hereditary and life peers, all of whom are appointed by the Crown.
		The Royal Commission, chaired by Lord Wakeham, was established to consider the role and functions of the House of Lords and the method or combination of methods of its composition.
		Lord Weatherill, Convenor of the Cross Bench peers, tabled an amendment to exempt 92 hereditary peers which was accepted at the Bill’s committee stage in May 1999.
	www.parlianet.com /addservices/ukparliament.asp (928 words)

	Lords Hansard - by peer
		You are here: Publications and Records > Lords Publications > Lords Hansard > Lords Hansard by Member
		Browse Hansard by Member of the House of Lords.
		Includes debate contributions, statements, and oral and written questions.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld200607/ldhansrd/ldallfiles/peers/hansardbylord_atoz.htm (61 words)

	BBC News \| In Depth \| UK Politics \| Open Politics
		The government's eventual blueprint for reforming the Lords was expected to draw heavily on the work of a Royal Commission, headed by the life peer and former Conservative Cabinet Minister, Lord Wakeham.
		Above all, we were keen to make proposals that would produce a new second chamber distinctively different from the House of Commons, whose members were more representative of the whole of British society and who could bring a wider range of expertise and experience to bear...
		After the fight the hereditary peers put up to keep their place in the House of Lords, the Wakeham Commission might have been expecting its report to be met by howls of protest.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/uk_politics/2001/open_politics/lords/wakeham.stm (600 words)

	Lord Wakeham's Enron connection \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Lord Wakeham's contacts with Enron began when he was appointed energy secretary by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 with the task of privatising the electricity industry.
		In 1994, months after Lord Wakeham quit as leader of the House of Lords and two years after leaving the energy brief, he became a non-executive director of Enron.
		Lord Wakeham, his wife Angela and another relative, Jonathan Wakeham, own a family company, Genner Holdings, a provider of "consultancy and management services".
	www.guardian.co.uk /enron/story/0,11337,641545,00.html (861 words)

	New Statesman - Lord Wakeham meets the rabble
		If the cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it, something similar could be said of the reforming process.
		I haven't thought far enough about it, but I think the subject ought to be thought about"), Lord Wakeham cut her short.
		Lord Wakeham finally brought the day's proceedings to an end at 7.10pm - 20 minutes before the advertised finishing time.
	www.newstatesman.com /199907050013 (1122 words)

	The Speculator - MSN Money
		Lord Michael Ashcroft, for example, joined Tyco’s board in 1998 but resigned in November 2002, when the company was beset with revelations of improper accounting.
		We are sure that each of these companies would say that they named these lords to their boards not out of deference or unseemly thirst for status, but purely because of their lordly abilities.
		Lord Robin W. Renwick as vice chairman of J.P. Morgan Europe in January 2001 did not prevent a 48% decline in the value of its stock, vs. 33% for the S&P 500 ($INX).
	moneycentral.msn.com /content/P45716.asp (1567 words)

	Ethics Newsline from the Institute for Global Ethics
		Wakeham considered his decision "a matter of honor," according to the Washington Post, as his involvement with Enron Corp. as a nonexecutive board member has put his name in newspaper headlines.
		Wakeham's resignation was seen as a blow to Conservative Party plans to use the Enron scandal against Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labor Party.
		Some observers expect Wakeham's involvement to be of particular significance, given his role as chairman of audit and corporate governance committees, according to press reports.
	www.globalethics.org /newsline/members/issue.tmpl?articleid=02110214054082 (404 words)

	Commanding Heights : Privatization and the Thatcher Legacy \| on PBS
		LORD NORMAN TEBBIT: One of Margaret Thatcher's extraordinary achievements was that she changed the whole perception of the way our economy is run.
		LORD JOHN WAKEHAM: The fact of the matter is that you can take virtually every privatized industry and try to put some objective tests to how it is now, delivering what it should deliver compared with what it delivered when it was a publicly owned body.
		LORD DAVID YOUNG: The most remarkable thing is to see a Labor government, Tony Blair's government, to have adopted hook, line, and sinker all the economic matters and measures that we believed in -- beliefs in the competitive economy, beliefs in privatization, beliefs in the state not doing more than it really has to do.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/ufd_privatizethatcher_full.html (3554 words)

	CNN.com - Enron: UK press chief stands down - January 31, 2002
		Wakeham, 69, chairman of Britain's Press Complaints Commission, said the move was temporary while U.S. investigators looked into his links to Enron.
		Wakeham, a former Conservative energy minister, was a non-executive director of Enron.
		Wakeham was drawn into the controversy earlier this week when he faced a call from the Liberal Democrats to stand aside from the PCC.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/01/31/uk.enron (654 words)

	'Suicide' Baxter Talked About Hiring A Bodyguard
		As the Tory minister who presided over the privatisation of the electricity industry in the Eighties, Lord Wakeham was an obvious choice as a director of Enron.
		Lord Wakeham was the political fixer of the Thatcher years whose wily acumen earned him a cabinet post as secretary of state for energy.
		Like many top politicians, Lord Wakeham of Maldon in the County of Essex - as John Wakeham became in 1992 - used his contacts and the expertise acquired in office to secure a very full retirement.
	www.rense.com /general19/suicidebodyguard.htm (1196 words)

	Våpen, klimaendring, og det store mediebedraget
		Wakeham, som var energiminister i den opplyste Thatcher-epoken, er direktør i 16 selskaper, blant dem selvsagt det nå avdøde Enron (som energiminister i 1990 bidro Wakeham til å privatisere britisk elektrisitetsindustri, og ga Enron tillatelse til å bygge Storbritannias største kraftverk), finansieringsselskapet Bristol and West, Rothschilds Bank og krigsskipsverftet Vosper Thorneycroft.
		I 1997 og 1998 hadde Wakeham to møter med Enron-direktører der han foreslo hvordan selskapet kunne få gunstig pressedekning.
		Det ble en endring i hva slags artikler som ble skrevet." (Anthony Barnett og Oliver Morgan, 'Wakeham viklet inn i ny krangel om Enron', the Observer, 10 februar 2002)
	www.radr.net /zno/DaveEdwardsVaapenKlimaMediebedraget.htm (2062 words)

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