Recent constitutional reform

Question 1

Lords reform

Answer 1

• Saw 92 hereditary peers lose their right to sit and vote in the chamber. (the house of lords Act 1999)
• a second stage of lords reform stalled in 2003 when parliament rejected all eight models for a reformed chamber.

Question 2

The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords

Answer 2

Pre 2009, there was no supreme court. So the House of Lords was the body that would take care of the most serious of legal cases.