Lord Chancellor

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Not to be confused with Chancellor of the Exchequer. For other uses, see Lord Chancellor (disambiguation).

His Majesty's Government
Incumbent
Alex Chalk
since 26 April 2023[1]
Ministry of Justice
StyleThe Right Honourable
(within the UK and Commonwealth)
TypeGreat Officer of State
Member of
Appointer
The 1st Lord Cowper
as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Salary£159,038 per annum (2022)[2]
(including £86,584 MP salary)[3]
WebsiteOfficial website
Political offices in the UK government
Arms of the British Government
Arms of the British Government
List of political offices

The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the

sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. Prior to the union of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain, there were separate lord chancellors[c] for the Kingdom of England (including Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland. There were Lord Chancellors of Ireland
until 1922.

The lord chancellor is a member of the Cabinet and is, by law, responsible for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts. In 2005, there were a number of changes to the legal system and to the office of the lord chancellor. Formerly, the lord chancellor was also the presiding officer of the House of Lords, the head of the judiciary of England and Wales and the presiding judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 transferred these roles to the lord speaker, the lord chief justice and the chancellor of the High Court respectively.

One of the lord chancellor's responsibilities is to act as the custodian of the Great Seal of the Realm, kept historically in the Lord Chancellor's Purse. A Lord Keeper of the Great Seal may be appointed instead of a lord chancellor. The two offices entail exactly the same duties; the only distinction is in the mode of appointment. Furthermore, the office of lord chancellor may be exercised by a committee of individuals known as lords commissioners of the Great Seal,[5] usually when there is a delay between an outgoing chancellor and their replacement. The office is then said to be in commission. Since the 19th century, however, only lord chancellors have been appointed, the other offices having fallen into disuse.

History

The office of lord chancellor may trace its origins to the

Carolingian monarchy, in which a chancellor acted as the keeper of the royal seal. In England, the office dates at least as far back as the Norman Conquest (1066), and possibly earlier. Some give the first chancellor of England as Angmendus, in 605. Other sources suggest that the first to appoint a chancellor was Edward the Confessor, who is said to have adopted the practice of sealing documents instead of personally signing them. A clerk of Edward's, Regenbald, was named "chancellor" in some documents from Edward's reign.[6] In any event, the office has been continuously occupied since the Norman Conquest.[citation needed] The staff of the growing office became separate from the king's household under Henry III and in the 14th century located in Chancery Lane.[7] The chancellor headed the chancery (writing office), which is a contraction of "chancellery", the office/staff of the Chancellor.[8]

Formerly, the lord chancellor was almost always a member of the clergy, as during the Middle Ages the clergy were amongst the few literate men of the realm. The lord chancellor performed multiple functions—he was the Keeper of the Great Seal, the chief royal chaplain, and adviser in both spiritual and temporal matters. Thus, the position emerged as one of the most important ones in government. He was only outranked in government by the Justiciar (now obsolete).

As one of the King's ministers, the lord chancellor attended the curia regis (royal court). If a bishop, the lord chancellor received a writ of summons; if an ecclesiastic of a lower degree or, if a layman, he attended without any summons. The curia regis would later evolve into Parliament, the lord chancellor becoming the prolocutor of its upper house, the House of Lords. As was confirmed by a statute passed during the reign of Henry VIII, a lord chancellor could preside over the House of Lords even if not a lord himself.[citation needed]

The lord chancellor's judicial duties also evolved through his role in the curia regis. Appeals from the law courts for justice in cases where the law would produce an unjust result (pleas for the exercise of

Edward I instructed his high ministers to adjudicate such appeals themselves.[10] Such appeals were addressed to the relevant high minister, often the Lord Chancellor. Cases that were particularly vexatious or of special importance were to be brought to the king's attention directly by the minister under whose purview they lay, but with the understanding that this would be an unusual phenomenon. Fairly quickly, the only other high minister exercising parallel jurisdiction was the Chancellor of the Exchequer (through the Exchequer of Pleas
), and his jurisdiction was initially limited to matters concerning revenues and expenditures. There was no right of appeal from the Lord Chancellor; he could refer the matter to the king for judgment, but that was at the Lord Chancellor's sole discretion.

By the reign of

keeper of the king's conscience
".

Churchmen continued to dominate the chancellorship until the 16th century. In 1529, after

Mary I, but thereafter, almost all lord chancellors have been laymen. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1672–73) was the last lord chancellor who was not a lawyer, until the appointment of Chris Grayling in 2012.[11] The three subsequent holders of the position, Michael Gove (2015–2016), Liz Truss (2016–2017) and David Lidington (2017–2018) are also not lawyers. However, the appointment of David Gauke
in January 2018 meant that once again the lord chancellor was a lawyer.

At the Union of England and Scotland, the

extraordinary lord of session
in that capacity until his death in 1730, since which time the office of lord chancellor of Scotland has been in abeyance.

The office

Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
in 1937. His ceremonial purse would once have contained the Great Seal of the Realm.

Formerly, when the office was held by ecclesiastics, a "Keeper of the Great Seal" acted in the lord chancellor's absence. Keepers were also appointed when the office of lord chancellor fell vacant, and discharged the duties of the office until an appropriate replacement could be found. When

lord keeper of the Great Seal would be entitled to "like place, pre-eminence, jurisdiction, execution of laws, and all other customs, commodities, and advantages" as a lord chancellor. The only difference between the two offices is the mode of appointment—a lord chancellor is appointed by formal letters patent
, but a Lord Keeper is appointed by the delivery of the Great Seal into their custody.

Formerly, it was customary to appoint commoners to the office of Lord Keeper, and peers to the office of lord chancellor. A Lord Keeper who acquired a peerage dignity would subsequently be appointed lord chancellor. The last Lord Keeper was Robert Henley, who was created a Baron in 1760 and was appointed lord chancellor in 1761. Since then, commoners as well as peers have been appointed to the post of lord chancellor; however, until the 21st-century changes to the office, a commoner would normally have been created a peer shortly after appointment.

It is also possible to put the office of lord chancellor into commission (that is to say, to entrust the office to a group of individuals rather than a single person). The individuals who exercise the office became known as Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal. Lords commissioners of the Great Seal have not been appointed since 1850.

Formerly, there were separate chancellors of England, Scotland and Ireland. When the

secretary of state for Northern Ireland
. Thus, the lord chancellor remains "Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain" and not "Lord High Chancellor of the United Kingdom".

Functions

Executive functions

The lord chancellor is a member of the

Privy Council and of the Cabinet. The ministerial department the lord chancellor heads was known as the Lord Chancellor's Office between 1885 and 1971, and the Lord Chancellor's Department between 1971 and 2003. In 2003 the department was renamed the Department for Constitutional Affairs, and the lord chancellor was appointed Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. In 2007 this post was renamed Secretary of State for Justice, and the department became the Ministry of Justice
.

By law, the lord chancellor is the minister of the Crown responsible for the administration of the courts and legal aid in England and Wales.[12] In their capacity as secretary of state for justice, the lord chancellor also administers the prison system and probation services in England and Wales.[13][14] It is for the lord chancellor to recommend the appointment of judges to English, Welsh, and UK-wide courts of law and tribunals. Since 2005, senior judges – i.e. Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lords Justices of Appeal and the heads of the divisions of the High Court – are appointed by the sovereign on the advice of the lord chancellor, who in turn consults an independent Judicial Appointments Commission. Since 2013, all other English and Welsh judges and judicial officers are also appointed by the sovereign on the advice of the lord chancellor in consultation with the Judicial Appointments Commission.[15][16][17][18] The lord chancellor's discretion over judicial appointments is limited by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and the Crime and Courts Act 2013. Nevertheless, when consulting the Judicial Appointments Commission, the lord chancellor may prescribe the scope for judicial nominations and choose to either accept or reject its recommendations. Similarly the lord chancellor no longer determines which barristers are to be raised to the rank of King's Counsel. Instead, the lord chancellor supervises the process of selection by an independent panel – to assure appointments comply with the principles of due process, fairness, and efficiency – and advises the sovereign to appoint nominees.[19] In addition, the lord chancellor officiates a ceremony in Westminster Abbey at the beginning of the legal year in front of all the judges. The ceremony is followed by a reception known as the lord chancellor's breakfast which is held in Westminster Hall.

Separately, custody of the Great Seal of the Realm is entrusted to the lord chancellor, as has been the case for nearly a thousand years; this was confirmed by the Great Seal Act 1884 and reaffirmed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.[20][21] Documents to which the Great Seal is affixed include letters patent, writs of summmons, writs of election, royal warrants, royal charters and royal proclamations, among many other instruments. The actual sealing of documents is performed by order of the lord chancellor under the supervision of the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Justice, who holds the separate statutory post of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and is thus head of the Crown Office. The lord chancellor is not keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, the Great Seal of Northern Ireland, or the Welsh Seal. Rather, the First Minister of Scotland, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and the First Minister of Wales are the lawful custodians.

Legislative functions

Whenever the sovereign appoints

privy counsellors (generally the leaders of the three main parties and the convenor of the crossbenches). In this role the lord chancellor wears parliamentary robes—a full-length scarlet wool gown decorated with miniver fur. The lord chancellor wears a tricorne hat, but the other lords commissioners wear bicorne hats. During the period that Jack Straw, an MP, was lord chancellor, he was officially named as one of the lords commissioners, but did not take part in the formal ceremonies of granting royal assent and proroguing Parliament. The Lord Speaker has been appointed a lord commissioner and does take part in the ceremonies. The role of principal lord commissioner during this period has been taken by the leader of the House of Lords. There is an exception: when John Bercow was presented for royal approbation for the office of speaker of the House of Commons in 2009, and again when Bercow's successor Sir Lindsay Hoyle was presented for approbation in 2019,[22]
the lord chancellor (Straw and Buckland, respectively) were the principal lord commissioner, and the lord speaker was not in the commission. This precedent has continued since then. It is unclear how these arrangements would change if a future lord chancellor were appointed from the House of Lords.

Ecclesiastical functions

The lord chancellor performs various functions relating to the established

canonries.[25][26]

Lord Chancellor (Tenure of Office and Discharge of Ecclesiastical Functions) Act 1974
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to declare the law relating to the tenure of the office of Lord Chancellor by Roman Catholics and to make provision for the exercise of ecclesiastical functions during any tenure of the office of Lord Chancellor by Roman Catholics.
Citation1974 c. 25
Dates
Royal assent9 July 1974
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Lord Chancellor (Tenure of Office and Discharge of Ecclesiastical Functions) Act 1974 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

Historically, Catholics were thought to be ineligible for the office of lord chancellor, as the office entailed functions relating to the Church of England. Most legal restrictions on Catholics were lifted by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, which, however, provides: "nothing herein contained shall [...] enable any Person, otherwise than as he is now by Law enabled, to hold or enjoy the Office of Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal". The words "as he is now by Law enabled", however, caused considerable doubt, as it was unclear if Catholics were disqualified from holding the office in the first place. For the removal of all doubt, Parliament passed the Lord Chancellor (Tenure of Office and Discharge of Ecclesiastical Functions) Act 1974 (c. 25), declaring that there was never any impediment to the appointment of a Catholic.[27] The act nevertheless provides that, if a Catholic were to be appointed to the office, then the sovereign may temporarily transfer the lord chancellor's ecclesiastical functions to the prime minister or another minister of the Crown.

Other functions

Under the

master of the rolls. If any three or more of these individuals, based on evidence that, as required by statute, shall include evidence provided by physicians, determine and declare by an instrument in writing, lodged with the Privy Council, that the sovereign suffers from a mental or physical infirmity that prevents him or her from personally discharging the duties of head of state, the royal functions are transferred to a regent
, who discharges them in the name and on behalf of the monarch.

The lord chancellor is also the Keeper of the King's Conscience. As such, the lord chancellor was once also the chief judge of the Court of Chancery in London, dispensing equity to soften the harshness of the law.

The lord chancellor acts as the

St. George's Chapel, Windsor, the Royal Institution, Newcastle University and three colleges of the University of Oxford (namely St. Antony's College, Worcester College, and University College
).

The power to appoint members of certain organisations is vested in the lord chancellor. These organisations include the governing bodies of Harrow School, Rugby School and Charterhouse School.

The Lord Chancellor is responsible for making a speech and raising the toast to the Lord Mayor at the Lord Mayor’s dinner in July each year.[28]

Former functions

Head of the judiciary

The lord chancellor performed several different roles as head of the English and Welsh judiciary. He sat as a judge in the

Lord Falconer
, never performed such a role, even before his right to do so was abolished.

When peers

lord high steward, instead of the lord chancellor, would preside. This also occurred in impeachment trials. The office of lord high steward has generally remained vacant since 1421. Whenever a peer was to be tried in the House of Lords, a lord high steward would be appointed pro hac vice [for this occasion]. In many cases, the lord chancellor would merely be elevated to the office of lord high steward temporarily. Trials of peers in the House of Lords were abolished in 1948, and impeachment
is considered obsolete, so this is unlikely to occur again.

The judicial functions of the lord chancellor (as opposed to his role in the administration of the court system) were removed by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.

Presiding officer in House of Lords

The lord chancellor used to be the presiding officer of the House of Lords by right of prescription. The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 removed this function, leaving the choice of a presiding officer to the House of Lords itself. Ultimately, the Lords chose to elect a Lord Speaker of the House of Lords, which title was already used in the Standing Orders.

Precedence and privileges

The lord high chancellor outranks all other

lord high treasurer
would be entitled to the same protection—but the office is now held in commission—as would a judge whilst actually in court, determining a case.

The lord chancellor's position in the modern

United Kingdom order of precedence
).

The lord chancellor is entitled to an annual emolument of £227,736 and to an annual pension of £106,868. The lord chancellor's salary is higher than that of any other public official, including even the prime minister, although sometimes the officeholder may voluntarily decide to receive a reduced salary (recent holders have taken the salary of a secretary of state).

Official dress

The Lord High Chancellor wearing full ceremonial dress at the 2023 State Opening of Parliament, preceded by his purse-bearer and a serjeant-at-arms.

The lord chancellor, on formal state occasions such as the State Opening of Parliament, wears legal court dress consisting of a black silk velvet cutaway tailcoat with cloth covered buttons, waistcoat and breeches worn with white shirt, lace stock and cuffs, black silk stockings and cut-steel buckled patent court shoes. Over this is worn a black silk damask robe of state with a long train trimmed with gold lace and frogging, with a black silk 'wig bag' attached to the flap collar at the back. A full-bottomed wig is worn and, in the past, a black tricorne hat.

When the lord chancellor sat in the Lords, they wore an undress version of court dress, consisting of the court dress but made of black superfine cloth rather than silk velvet, and over that a black silk robe with a train with the wig bag attached. The wig and tricorne was also worn.

Now that the lord chancellor is appointed from the Commons rather than the Lords, they wear a normal business suit and only wear full ceremonial dress for state occasions. There is an unofficial precedent that lord chancellors that do not have a legal background do not get to wear a wig.

Queen's Counsel); Chris Grayling, Michael Gove, and Liz Truss (none of whom have legal backgrounds) have not done so. Robert Buckland QC MP, continued the tradition of wearing the full court dress along with the full bottomed wig, as he is a barrister. In 2019 at the Approbation of the new speaker of the Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, he wore full court dress along with the full bottomed wig and a tricorne
.

Insignia

supporter holds the lord chancellor's mace

The historic insignia of the lord chancellor is a purse containing the

Great Seal and a mace.[29] The Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More opens Scene II as follows: "Chelsea. A Room in More's House. A table being covered with a green carpet, a state cushion on it, and the Purse and Mace lying thereon, enter Sir Thomas More
".

Reform

Jack Straw was the first commoner to be appointed as Lord Chancellor since 1587.

In the early 21st century, the Labour government viewed it as untenable that all three political functions (executive, legislative and judicial) should be continued in the historical office of Lord Chancellor. In the Government's view, this infringed Montesquieu's principle of separation of powers which declared that no person should have access to all of the three political functions. The lord chancellor could exercise all three powers, and some, such as Quintin, Lord Hailsham, often did so. The Labour Government also took the view that these powers were inconsistent with the European Convention on Human Rights.

However, proposals by the

Act of Parliament. Thus Lord Falconer duly appeared the following day in the House of Lords to carry out his duties from the Woolsack. The Lord Chancellor's Department was, however, renamed the Department for Constitutional Affairs
.

In January 2004, the Department of Constitutional Affairs published a concordat, outlining the division of authority between lord chancellor and

statute law. Those "protected functions" of the lord chancellor can only be transferred to other ministers by Act of Parliament.[31]
As a consequence, it became clear that it was extremely difficult to simply "abolish" the office of lord chancellor.

In March 2004, however, the Lords upset the Government's plans by sending the bill to a Select committee. Although initially seen as a move to kill the bill, the Government and HM Opposition agreed to permit the bill to proceed through the parliamentary process, subject to any amendments made by the committee. On 13 July 2004, the House amended the Constitutional Reform Bill such that the title of lord chancellor would be retained, although the Government's other proposed reforms were left intact. Then, in November 2004, the Government introduced an amendment in the Lords which wholly removed references to the secretary of state for constitutional affairs, changing them to ones about the lord chancellor, with the positions of secretary of state and lord chancellor envisaged as being held by the same person. The final Constitutional Reform Act received royal assent on 24 March 2005 and the major transfers of the historical functions of the lord chancellor to others (such as the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Speaker of the House of Lords) were complete by mid-2006. However the lord chancellor and secretary of state for constitutional affairs remained a member of the Prime Minister's Cabinet, retaining most of the office's original statutory functions.

In May 2007, the

Department of Constitutional Affairs was abolished and its functions were transferred to a newly created Ministry of Justice which also took charge of certain responsibilities transferred from the Home Office. Lord Falconer retained the title, salary and office of lord chancellor, as well as being created the inaugural Secretary of State for Justice
.

Prior to Tony Blair's premiership, were a person not a

Curia Regis, since Christopher Hatton in 1587.[33][34]

Both Straw and his immediate successor,

Ken Clarke, were barristers. In 2012 Chris Grayling became the first justice secretary without a legal background, in which he was followed by his three immediate successors. One of these, Liz Truss in 2016, became the first woman to serve as lord chancellor of the United Kingdom (Queen Eleanor of Provence was keeper of the great seal, and so arguably lord chancellor, of England in 1253–54). Subsequently, the post was for the first time held by solicitors, David Gauke and Dominic Raab
.

Fictional depictions

A fictional depiction of a lord chancellor occurs in Iolanthe, the frequently-revived comic opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.[35][36][37] The lord chancellor is the central character in the work but is identified only by his title.

William Rehnquist, late Chief Justice of the United States, was inspired to add four golden stripes to the sleeves of his judicial robes after seeing the costume of the lord chancellor in a production of Iolanthe. The current chief justice, John Roberts, has not continued the practice.

A fictional lord chancellor also appears in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House (also identified only by title), presiding over the interminable chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels feature a number of references to fictitious lord chancellors. The Liberal Lord Weazeling holds the office in the Liberal governments of Mildmay and Gresham in Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux; the Conservative Lord Ramsden holds the position in the Duke of Omnium's coalition government in The Prime Minister. In Gresham's final government at the end of The Prime Minister, the former Liberal Attorney General, Sir Gregory Grogram, is finally given the position, which he had desired for some time.

"King Hilary and the Beggarman", a children's poem by A. A. Milne, relates the story of a fictional lord high chancellor, "Proud Lord Willoughby", who is dismissed for refusing to obey his king.

In David Gurr's thriller A Woman Called Scylla, set in 1977, the main villain is an utterly ruthless and unscrupulous lord chancellor, who grossly abuses his many functions and powers in order to cover up his treason during the Second World War and as a stepping stone towards becoming prime minister. As the writer clearly states, this was not intended to refer to the actual holder of the office at the time of writing or at any other time.

The Lord Chancellor is portrayed by Preston Lockwood in “Rumpole and the Tap End” episode of the Rumpole of the Bailey TV series. He is shown making himself a necklace/chain of office from coloured paper clips, whilst reprimanding Judge Featherstone.

List of lord chancellors

Main article: List of lord chancellors and lord keepers

See also

References

  1. Great Steward of Scotland
    , another Great Officer of State.
  2. ^ The Lord Chancellor would be outranked only by the Lord High Steward, another Great Officer of State, who is appointed only for the day of coronations and to preside over impeachment trials of peers (a rare occurrence in the House of Lords).
  3. ^ The title can be pluralised 'lord chancellors' or 'lords chancellor'. The former is more common and is used for consistency throughout the article.[4]
  4. ^ In his memoirs Simon 1952, p. 255 (Lord Chancellor 1940–1945) writes "It is not constitutionally necessary that the Lord Chancellor should be a Peer (Sir Thomas More was not, for one), but this is practically inevitable, for otherwise he would be limited to the formal business of presiding and "putting the Question" and be unable to take the smallest part in debate. The theory is that the Woolsack itself, and, I suppose, the space immediately in front of it, do not form part of the debating floor, and that is the reason why, when the Lord Chancellor takes part in any discussion – even when only moving the reading of a Bill – he steps nimbly to the left and thus speaks while standing on what is in the full sense Lords' territory."
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