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...abolish the right of an accused lord to trial by his peers. Reason: taxpayers object to forking up the $50,000 such trials can cost. Introducing a motion to brand the right of a peer to trial by the House of Lords as "archaic," Bachelor Viscount Sankey, recently Lord Chancellor, last week declared...
...Certainly the procedure should be maintained in cases of treason!" urged the ist Baron Rankeillour, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1924-29. But such objections and proposals last week went unheeded. By a vote of 45-to-24 the few peers in the House upheld Lord Sankey, and the Government was thus enabled to prepare a bill under which an arrested peer will face ordinary trial in Britain's ordinary courts...
Third was the two-coach procession of learned Sankey, the Lord High Chancellor, who outranks the Prime Minister. Fourth was the procession of the tiniest London Lord Mayor in history, Sir Stephen Killik perched froglike on a seat in the Lord Mayor's Coach especially heightened so that he could be seen...
...Appeal, has been compared to the U. S. Supreme Court. Ecclesiastical cases, however, and appeals from the highest courts of India, the Dominions and the Colonies go to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, "supreme judicial authority of the Empire." In any case it is Lord High Chancellor Sankey who pre sides, either over the House of Lords as a Court of Appeal (as Speaker of the House of Lords he gets an additional ?4,000) or over the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Also, in the words of the late, great Jeremy Bentham, the Lord High Chancellor...
...furor year ago when Lady Hewart suddenly collapsed and died at a glittering reception given for the retiring Lord Mayor of London (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933) Widower Lord Chief Justice Hewart began his career as a reporter on London's Evening Star. Bachelor Lord High Chancellor Sankey is devoted to his sister with whom he goes on long walks and tramp ship cruises. Husband Lord Justice Slesser used to spell his name Schloesser, began life as an engineer, now hobnobs as a leading Fabian with George Bernard Shaw and has published volumes of Collected Verses...