Lord Chancellor
Britain's top judge
The Lord Chancellor is a senior government minister in the United Kingdom, historically the highest-ranking officer of state.
The role combines judicial, legislative, and executive functions—formerly presiding over the House of Lords and heading the judiciary.
Modern reforms have reduced these powers, but the title remains: The Lord Chancellor announced reforms to the court system.
Equity tribunal or archives
- woolsackStuffed parliamentary seat
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- precedentPrior authoritative example
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
decree · adjudication · jurisdiction · court · bench · appeal · tribunal · judgment
Enclosed storage furniture
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- WestminsterLondon's political center
- privy councilSovereign's official consultants
- speakerOne who talks
Great Seal · royal assent · constitutional · legislature · minister · peerage · dissolution · ceremonial
- BaconNotable English surname
- keeperOne who guards
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
ecclesiastical · clerical · cardinal · archbishop · abbey · monastic · reformation
chancery
Equity tribunal or archives
- woolsackStuffed parliamentary seat
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- precedentPrior authoritative example
injunction · decree · adjudication · jurisdiction · court · bench · appeal · tribunal · judgment · ruling
cabinet
Enclosed storage furniture
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- WestminsterLondon's political center
- privy councilSovereign's official consultants
speaker · Great Seal · royal assent · constitutional · legislature · minister · peerage · dissolution · ceremonial
Thomas More
Tudor · ecclesiastical · clerical · cardinal · archbishop · abbey · monastic · reformation
- Tudor CourtiersThomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Thomas Cranmer, courtiers, statesmen
- British PoliticsHouse of Commons, Westminster, Whigs, Tories, Commons
- English Lawbarristers, solicitors, solicitor, High Court, Crown Court
- British governanceborough, county, shire, local government, local council
- British GovernmentHouse of Commons, Westminster, Whitehall, Downing Street, MPs
- British lawEnglish law, Scottish law, barrister, solicitor, Crown Court
Lord Chancellormagistrate
Civil judicial officer
justice of the peace · district judge · court clerk · bailiff · court bailiff
Lord Chancellorcommoner
Non-noble person
ordinary citizen · subject · peasant · serf · private citizen
lord, landlord, lords, lordly, chancellor, landlords, lordship, overlord, lordships