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Out of Africa

03/01/2010 – 9:55 pm

I am spending the new year break in Cape Town.  I have a deep interest in and affection for South Africa, having been a trustee of the Rhodes Scholarships and of the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation.  The Rhodes Scholarships bring American, S. African and other commonwealth graduates to Oxford – but the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation returns some of [...]

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From House of Lords to Supreme Court

04/08/2009 – 3:23 pm

Shortly before the final sitting of the law lords, one of their number – Lord Mance – gave an interview on the move from the Palace of Westminster to the new Supreme Court the other side of Parliament square.  You can link to the interview here.  In the course of it, he provides an answer [...]

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The Law Lords depart

26/07/2009 – 5:37 pm

The House  last Monday paid tributes to the law lords and on Thursday the law lords held their last judicial sitting in the House.  Though we may still see them individually, they cease to be members with the creation of the Supreme Court.  (Under the terms of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 we also lose [...]

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Law lords on the move…

02/07/2009 – 5:53 pm

There was a judicial sitting of the House yesterday morning.  It followed the usual procedures.  However, upstairs on the second floor where the law lords are located, everything is not as usual.  Packing is already under way in preparation for the move to the Supreme Court.
The House will rise in just over two weeks.  When we resume in [...]

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Weekend quiz questions: the law lords

19/06/2009 – 10:06 pm

This weekend’s quiz questions.   The Work of the House of Lords 2007-08 can be read here.  On page 31, there is a picture of a judicial sitting of the House. 
1. Who is the law lord presiding on the woolsack?
2.  Who is the law lord delivering the judgement?
A commendation to any reader who can identify either and full [...]

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