Lord Chancellor Role Spared By House Of Lords
It emerged last week in the United Kingdom that the House of Lords has delivered
another defeat to the government's constitutional reforms, voting to maintain
the status quo with regard to the post of Lord Chancellor. Having previously rejected a proposal that the role be abolished altogether,
the upper house voted by 229 votes to 206 that the Lord Chancellor should be
a member of the House of Lords, and by 215 votes to 175 that he should also
be a lawyer. According to The Lawyer.com news service, Lord Phillips of Sudbury spoke out
strongly in favour of maintaining the status quo, arguing that: "The reality is that the convention or constitutional principle of the independence
of the judiciary and of the rule of law is a function of our political culture.
It is lodged in hearts and minds more than in the annals of the law. It is significantly
bound up with the role of the Lord Chancellor, which, in its turn, is intrinsically
dependent on his or her status as a senior lawyer in this House." Earlier this year, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitutional
Reform Bill failed to reach agreement on the amendments dealing with the proposed
reform of the Lord Chancellor's role. .
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