HOUSE OF LORDS

House of Lords

House of Lords

Introduction

The House of Lords is the right honourable, spiritual and temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament Assembled is the upper house of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Parliament also includes the Sovereign, and the lower house called the House of Commons. Both Houses hold their meetings in the Palace of Westminster. The British Parliament, born in medieval times, has developed over centuries to meet challenges and new roles. Her evolution continued with the entry of Britain into the European Community, the integration of policies and laws that followed and the transfer of powers to sub assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Ireland North.

Contrary to what happens in the House of Commons, members of the House of Lords are not elected through elections, divided according to their right to be part of the House Lords Spiritual and Lords in Temporary. The Lords Spiritual is 26 bishops elected by his ecclesiastical prestige and long career in the Anglican Church. Temporary Lords make up the rest, the majority being members entitled to lifetime non-hereditary, appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister. And this is because, formerly, the right part of the House of Lords as Temporary Lords was exclusively hereditary, but today, after many alterations hereditary members of this House, are only a small portion. Since March 2010, the House of Lords has 733 members, 87 more than the House of Commons, with 646. The Lord Speaker (Speaker of the House) is the Baroness Frances D'Souza.

The bicameral nature of the British Parliament, consisting of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, served as a model for parliamentary systems of Canada and many other countries. The British Parliament, born in medieval times, has developed over centuries to meet challenges and new roles. Her evolution continued with the entry of Britain into the European Community, the integration of policies and laws that followed and the transfer of powers to sub assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Ireland North. At the institutional level, the House of Lords has generated considerable discussion and debate in recent years.

Description and Analysis

The House of Lords introduced until 2009 as the distinction of being the highest court of the United Kingdom. However, these judicial powers formerly exercised by all the Lords, have been exercised since the Restoration by the legal members of the bedroom ... provided that any, under the chairmanship of Lord Chancellor, who sometimes found himself alone to exercise them. The system has been criticized in the nineteenth century for its slowness and cost. It also resulted in a duality of jurisdiction, the calls of national colonies to the Privy Council.

A law of 1873 creating an independent court of appeal for England was never applied, and the judicial powers of the House of Lords have been reinstated to the three kingdoms by the Act of August 11, 1876, which has profoundly changed the year. Thus, the law authorizes the appointment of Lords ...