• The crossbencher, Lady Cox, wants ministers' assessment of the recent escalation of violence in Nigeria, and the former law lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, asks when the Chilcot committee's verdict on the admissibility of intercept evidence in court is expected.

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  • Proceedings began with the swearing in of non-affiliated peer Lord Collins of Mapesbury, a former Law Lord whose position as Justice of the Supreme Court disqualified him from participation in the Lords between 2009 and 2011.

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  • His views were backed by legal practitioners including Liberal Democrat Lord Goodhart, a former chair of the law reform group JUSTICE, and Lord Pannick, a crossbench peer and human rights lawyer, among others.

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  • Two of the Law Lords agreed with Lord Bingham's reasoning in the lower court.

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  • Now Mrs Ming, who has been campaigning for a change in the Double Jeopardy law, is meeting Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and other members of the House of Lords to argue her case.

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  • The issue was also raised by Labour spokesman Lord Stevenson of Balmacara who queried the effect of the law on ticket holders "who cannot for good reason be present at the event".

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  • In March a review of the implications of Leveson in Scotland chaired by Lord McCluskey recommended statutory controls underpinned by law.

    BBC: Leveson Inquiry: MSPs call for UK-wide regulation

  • Earlier retired law lord Lord Steyn accused the Home Office of introducing the cards in stages as a way of "conditioning" and "softening up" public opinion.

    BBC: Tories warn firms off ID scheme

  • The Lord Advocate is the principal law officer of the Crown in Scotland, responsible for the system of public prosecution.

    BBC: Chhokar graphic

  • Lord Bingham, and one of the Law Lords in the first panel who sided with General Pinochet, considered the retrospectivity argument briefly, and then rejected it because the plain language of Britain's 1989 Extradition Act seems explicitly to rule it out.

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  • In an earlier persona, Johnson once wrote of a certain large-wigged Law Lord that he plainly thought the press too big for its boots and unfit to black his.

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  • Then the first panel of five Law Lords, hearing an appeal of Lord Bingham's decision, found by 3-2 that former heads of state did not enjoy immunity for heinous international crimes.

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  • MSPs then quizzed Lord Mackay of Clashfern and Adrian Ward of the Law Society of Scotland.

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  • One of the judges sitting in the current Pinochet hearing is a retired Law Lord.

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  • And yet David Cameron has rejected the central recommendation of Lord Justice Leveson - that a new law is essential to underpin a new stronger press regulator.

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  • Mr Starmer signalled the change in stance in a letter to former West Midlands chief constable Lord Dear, who is seeking the law change in a House of Lords vote that is expected on Wednesday.

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  • Lord Neuberger, who is president of the Supreme Court, told Law in Action's Joshua Rozenberg that Parliament had "power" to introduce laws.

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  • That was before the 43-year-old was accused of bullying by five members of staff, complaints which were upheld in a damning report by the former law lord, Lord Griffiths.

    BBC: Kamlesh Bahl: A lightning rod for change

  • Liberal Democrat Lord Thomas of Gresford offered a different perspective, saying that the law should remain as it is and that people have to trust in the ability of judges and juries to assess individual cases as they arise.

    BBC: Peers call for clarification of self-defence laws

  • Former Labour minister Lord Bach said the government had failed to honour an earlier commitment by former Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke to allow support in "point of law" cases at the first-tier tribunal level - the first stage of the tribunal process.

    BBC: Legal aid: Government defeated in Lords

  • Lord Justice Leveson was speaking at a University of Technology Communications Law Centre symposium entitled Privacy in the 21st Century.

    BBC: Leveson: Internet needs new privacy laws

  • Lord Griffiths called for primary law-making powers and for a formal separation of powers between the executive (the assembly government) and the legislature (the assembly).

    BBC: Increase assembly's power, says peer

  • Lord Pannick argued that there was no danger of a successful challenge under human rights law, because the European Court of Human Rights precedent was firmly against the idea that people had a human right to a particular kind of religious marriage - so if a marriage was refused for religious reasons, the courts would uphold that decision.

    BBC: Trench warfare

  • City Minister Lord Myners replied that treaty law made it clear that member states were not liable for the commitments of governments of other member states.

    BBC: Peers: UK must not pay for Greece bail-out

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