Law Lords
Britishplural noun
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For centuries, the highest court in the land was a committee of twelve peers, the Law Lords, who sat in Parliament and were part of the legislature.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2019
The panel of 11 justices is the largest ever assembled for a single case since the Law Lords were created in 1876.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2016
But in a 1988 ruling, the Law Lords said that the police could not be held liable because the public interest lay in protecting the police from negligence claims.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2015
She was the first woman to be appointed to the Law Lords in 2004.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2011
The above slight sketch of the penal law of New Zealand I present and dedicate to the Law Lords of England; as it might, perhaps, afford some hints for a reform in our own.
From Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by 'A Pakeha Maori'
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