appellate committee

An Appellate Committee hearing an important case could consist of more than five members.

Only five Appellate Committees ever comprised nine members.

Appellate Committees may meet while Parliament is prorogued.

On appeal from the colony, the Privy Council appellate committee granted a Commission of Review in 1706.

Though Appellate Committees meet in separate committee rooms, judgement is given in the Lords Chamber itself.

He served until he was promoted to the appellate committee of the House of Lords in 1985 when Fraser stepped down.

A few years ago, he attended a legal training seminar for lawyers given by Norman A. Olch, then chairman of the New York Bar Association's appellate committee.

A new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into being in October 2009 to replace the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.

An Appellate Committee, normally consisting of five Lords of Appeal in Ordinary or Lords of Appeal, heard the actual appeals.

For the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, see Judicial functions of the House of Lords.

The relaxed exclusionary rule, as expressed by Lord Browne-Wilkinson in Pepper v. Hart, with which five of his six colleagues sitting in the Appellate Committee concurred, would:

The de facto head of the Chancery Division was the Vice-Chancellor, and the role of choosing appellate committees was in practice fulfilled by the Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

Not all Law Lords sit to hear cases; rather, since World War II cases have been heard by panels known as Appellate Committees, each of which normally consists of five members (selected by the Senior Lord).