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The Lords Should Be Hereditary

The Daily Sceptic 10 Apr 2025
The Lords are, in effect, to be completely abolished. There will still be a thing called a House of Lords. But it will have no actual Lords in it. Let me quote from the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill ... These are the true Lords.
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Supreme Court to rule on whether trans women can be defined as women

AOL 10 Apr 2025
The case centres on whether guidance issued by the Scottish Government about the meaning of the word “woman” in the Equality Act is lawful. Five judges, led by Lord Reed, will hand down their ruling next week ... .
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“All Is Well in Hong Kong,” Says Sydney’s “Law Society Journal.” 1. Slandering Pro-Democracy Activists

Bitter Winter English 10 Apr 2025
The Article in Sydney’s “Law Society Journal.” ... And why did the authors exclude Lord Sumption’s June 2024 statement saying that the rule of law in Hong Kong is profoundly compromised in areas where the government has strong opinions?.
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Supreme Court to rule on whether trans people can be defined as women

The Daily Telegraph 10 Apr 2025
The case centres on whether guidance issued by the Scottish Government about the meaning of the word “woman” in the Equality Act is lawful. Five judges, led by Lord Reed, will hand down their ruling next week.
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Post Office gets extra £136m towards tech transformation as clock ticks on Horizon

Computer Weekly 09 Apr 2025
Former Lord Justice of Appeal Hooper joins Post Office Horizon investigation ... James Arbuthnot takes Post Office IT fight to House of Lords ... Lords debate amendment to law on use of computer evidence in light of Post Office scandal.
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Wes Streeting: I will not vote for assisted dying Bill

The Daily Telegraph 08 Apr 2025
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is set to return to the Commons for its report stage and third reading on April 25, where MPs will have a final chance to amend and vote on the proposals before they are sent to the Lords.
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Post Office can’t find evidence for over 1,000 Horizon scandal redress claimants

Computer Weekly 07 Apr 2025
Former Lord Justice of Appeal Hooper joins Post Office Horizon investigation ... James Arbuthnot takes Post Office IT fight to House of Lords ... Lords debate amendment to law on use of computer evidence in light of Post Office scandal.
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Uddhav Thackeray alleges BJP eying land of Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Hindu temples after Waqf

India TV 06 Apr 2025
Thackeray advised his former ally BJP, which is celebrating its 45th Foundation Day on Sunday, to “behave” in a way Lord Ram did.
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After Waqf Act, BJP eying other community lands for ‘friends’, says Uddhav

The Siasat Daily 06 Apr 2025
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday, April 6, alleged that after rolling out the Waqf law, the BJP is now eying the land of Christians, Jains, Buddhists and even Hindu temples for their “friends”.
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Starmer is destroying 600 years of history with attack on Lords, says Lord True

The Daily Telegraph 05 Apr 2025
Sir Keir Starmer is destroying 600 years of history in order to give jobs to union barons, a House of Lords grandee has warned ... Lord True warns that the upper house could delay the Government’s legislative programme Credit.
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Russell Brand grins as he is seen in public in the US for the first ...

The Daily Mail 05 Apr 2025
Brand has since hit out at the serious allegations against him, accusing the government of turning the law into 'a weapon', before repeating previous denials that he has ever engaged in non-consensual sex ... 'Praise the Lord.' ... Praise the Lord.'.
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PETER HITCHENS: Lucy Letby's case has been torn apart by the world's greatest minds. Yet ...

The Daily Mail 05 Apr 2025
This process has been so persuasive that Lord Sumption, a former Supreme Court judge and one of the most brilliant minds in the law, has felt it his duty to speak out and say she is probably innocent.
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Letby barrister: US death row inmates have better shot at freedom than wrongfully convicted Britons

The Daily Telegraph 05 Apr 2025
Since her conviction, dozens of doctors, nurses, statisticians, law experts and scientists have come forward to criticise the way evidence was presented to the jury, including Lord Sumption, the ...
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In defence of the UK Supreme Court

AOL 04 Apr 2025
The three main differences between the Supreme Court and the Law Lords have all been wholly positive ... The former UKIP MP Douglas Carswell recently called in this newspaper for the Law Lords to be restored.
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