Privileges - First Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 18 October 1999.
REFERENCE AS TO WHETHER THE HOUSE OF LORDS
BILL (AS AMENDED ON REPORT) WOULD, IF ENACTED, AFFECT THE RIGHT
OF THOSE HEREDITARY PEERS WHO HAVE ANSWERED TO THEIR WRIT OF SUMMONS
BEFORE THE BILL RECEIVES ROYAL ASSENT TO CONTINUE TO SIT AND VOTE
THROUGHOUT THE PARLIAMENT IN WHICH THE BILL IS ENACTED
CONTENTS
Orders of Reference, etc.
Minutes of Proceedings
Report
Appendices:
1—Statement of Issues agreed between the
Lord Mayhew of Twysden and Her Majesty's Government
2—Case for the Lord Mayhew of Twysden;
propositions of leading counsel; and notes to accompany the submission
of junior counsel (together with an appendix showing the form
of a Writ in Acceleration, a Warrant for the issue of a Writ in
Acceleration and a Writ of Attendance)
APPENDIX - Form of a Writ in Acceleration
3—Case for Her Majesty's Government
4—Documents appended to the cases:
(1)House of Lords Bill as brought from the Commons
on 17 March 1999 (HL Bill 38)
(2)Explanatory Notes to the House of Lords
Bill as brought from the Commons on 17 March 1999 (HL Bill 38-EN)
(3)House of Lords Bill as amended on Report,
ordered to be printed on 1 July 1999 (HL Bill 76)
(4)Extracts from the White Paper `Modernising
Parliament—Reforming the House of Lords' (Cm 4183), pp 7,
27-30
(5)Extracts from the Manifesto of the Labour
Party for the General Election of 1997, pp 32-33
(6)Standing Orders of the House of Lords
relating to public business (1994) (HL Paper 15), Nos 20, 74-78
(7)Extracts from the Companion to the Standing
Orders and guide to the Proceedings of the House of Lords (1994),
pp 3, 204, 215
(8)Standing Order of the House of Lords relating
to public business (1958)No 21
(9)Opinion by junior counsel for the Lord
Mayhew of Twysden, 14 April 1999
(10)
(1) Writ of Summons (On the holding of
a general election)
(2) Writ of Summons (Issued during the Parliament)
(3) Writ of Summons (Issued during the Prorogation
of the Parliament)
(11)Letter from the Treasury Solicitor to
Herbert Smith, 15 September 1999
(12)Proclamation by Her Majesty the Queen
for dissolving the present Parliament and declaring the calling
of another, 9 April 1997
5—List of authorities cited during
the hearing
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
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