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NLJ this week: The Lords give their verdict on the Lord Chancellor

24 February 2023
Issue: 8014 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Rule of law , Constitutional law
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NLJ columnist Roger Smith covers a House of Lords paper on the roles of the Lord Chancellor and the law officers, in this week’s NLJ. 

Smith writes: ‘The committee was clearly unimpressed by a number of recent holders of the office… The committee frowned on roughly annual appointments granted to [list of several officeholders].’

What constitutes the Lord Chancellor’s duty to defend judicial independence? What should they do to protect the rule of law? The parameters and boundaries of such questions are not always clear.

Smith assesses the committee’s response here.

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