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    Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords...
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  • list of the last Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and other Lords of Appeal before the judicial functions of the House of Lords ended in 2009. As of 30 September...
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    appellate functions of the House to an Appellate Committee, composed of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (informally referred to as Law Lords). They were then...
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  • of people who have been appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary under the terms of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. On 1 October 2009, the Lords Appeal...
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    Justice of Appeal is the second highest level of judge in the courts of England and Wales. Despite the title, and unlike the former Lords of Appeal in Ordinary...
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    position of Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, also known as the Senior Law Lord, who was the highest ranking among the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (the judges...
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  • Lord of Appeal may refer to: Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (also known as Law Lords), members of the House of Lords formerly appointed under the Appellate...
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  • Life peer (category Peerages in the United Kingdom)
    judges in the House of Lords. Initially it was intended that the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary created in this way (for their titles, see the list of law life...
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    Principal Painter in Ordinary Lords of Appeal in Ordinary Chaplain Extraordinary Oxford English Dictionary. "Vessels "In Ordinary" or Reserve — May 1805"...
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    the Lords Temporal also included the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, more commonly known as Law Lords, a group of individuals appointed to the House of Lords...
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    Lords Justices, the Lord Chancellor, any previous Lords Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, the Vice-Chancellor of the...
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  • Nick Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson (category Senior lords of appeal in ordinary)
    British judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1991 to 2000, and Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1998 to 2000. Browne-Wilkinson...
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    exercised by the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (commonly called "Law Lords"), the 12 judges appointed as members of the House of Lords to carry out its...
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    speak in the Lords until they retire as justices. In the late 19th century, Acts allowed for the appointment of Scottish Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and...
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    Appeal in Ordinary from 1992 to 1997 Donald Nicholls, Baron Nicholls of Birkenhead (Trinity Hall), one of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1994 to...
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    Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 (category Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning the House of Lords)
    senior judges to sit in the House of Lords as life peers with the rank of baron, known as Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The first person to be made a law...
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  • Practice Statement (category House of Lords)
    a statement made in the House of Lords by Lord Gardiner LC on 26 July 1966 on behalf of himself and the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, that they would depart...
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  • This is a list of people with peerages of the United Kingdom created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (whose life peerages...
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    Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (category Senior lords of appeal in ordinary)
    made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, becoming Baron Scarman, of Quatt in the County of Salop. He served in the Lords until his retirement in 1986. He was...
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  • twenty-two law lords; ten US Senators, ten US Representatives (including a Speaker of the House), three state governors, and four associate justices of the US...
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  • salaries at the age of 75. Under the terms of the Act, there may be no more than 12 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary under the age of 75 at one time. However...
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    of Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, also known previously as the Second Senior Law Lord, who was the second highest-ranking Lord of Appeal in...
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  • Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (category Senior lords of appeal in ordinary)
    Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1964 to 1982. Born in Jalandhar, India, Richard Wilberforce was the son of Samuel Wilberforce, ICS, later a judge of the...
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  • He was also one of five additional Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords, where he sat as a crossbencher. Mackay was born in Aberdeen in 1946, to Donald...
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    Goff of Chieveley, PC, FBA, QC (12 November 1926 – 14 August 2016) was an English barrister and judge who was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, the equivalent...
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  • Court of Switzerland  United Kingdom : List of judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom List of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary  Scotland : List of senators...
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    that of the Court of Exchequer, which has been transferred to the Court of Session with one of the Lords Ordinary required to be Lord Ordinary in Exchequer...
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  • Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot in the County of Perth, and took the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Fraser was a very active member of the House...
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    Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, remarked that "...Tom Bingham was the most wonderful man; he was head and shoulders above everybody else in the Law, in my view...
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    Council, whose members were the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (who exercised the judicial functions of the House of Lords.) However, the two bodies were...
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