The Lord Chancellor's powers to appoint judges and Queen's Counsels appeared to be under fresh threat today following the "cash for wigs" affair. Lord Irvine has been accused of "damaging the ...

older than any great office of state apart from Lord Chancellor, another title that still exists. Indeed, it was trying to get rid of the latter post that resulted in ill-conceived constitutional ...

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, is set to get a £90,000-a-year pension when he retires, it was disclosed today. The Sun, under the front page headline "Insult", said that Lord Irvine would also ...

Lord Hague, the former Conservative party leader, has been elected as the next chancellor of the University of Oxford. He will be formally inaugurated early in the new year, becoming the 160th ...

Unfortunately, he, too, died after serving less than one year and the visitors turned to Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, and from 1736 to 1757 Lord Chancellor of England. Unfortunately for William & ...

The warning was issued by Labour former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton in the face of Tory criticism of the plan to boot out bloodline members, which has sparked accusations of broken p ...

The lord chancellor has asked for a major review of the judicial salary structure to examine ‘more fundamental issues’ affecting pay. In an open letter to the Senior Salaries Review Body’s ...

After months of not-so-secret campaigning, the race to become the next chancellor of Oxford University is entering the home straight, with voting opening for students, staff and graduates next week.