Lord of Appeal
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The chief justice, known as the president, is Baroness Brenda Hale, who served as a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords.
From New York Times
In 1893 he was raised to the bench as a lord justice of appeal, and in the next year was made a lord of appeal in ordinary and a life peer.
From Project Gutenberg
However, Mr. Festing Jones, who is as judicious as a Lord of Appeal, seems to entertain no doubt that Canon Butler was a holy horror, so that we must bow to his opinion.
From Project Gutenberg
It had been reached after long deliberation by a seven-man commission of lawyers, scientists and businessmen, presided over by Lord Justice Cohen, Lord of Appeal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ensued hours of lordly legal buzz-buzz, enlivened when Baron Atkin, a Lord of Appeal, murmured: "But ought we not to inspect the actual sawed-off shotgun?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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