Lord of Appeal

noun

1. one of several judges appointed to assist the House of Lords in hearing appeals

Example Sentences

The chief justice, known as the president, is Baroness Brenda Hale, who served as a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords.

From New York Times

In 1893 he was raised to the bench as a lord justice of appeal, and in the next year was made a lord of appeal in ordinary and a life peer.

From Project Gutenberg

However, Mr. Festing Jones, who is as judicious as a Lord of Appeal, seems to entertain no doubt that Canon Butler was a holy horror, so that we must bow to his opinion.

From Project Gutenberg

It had been reached after long deliberation by a seven-man commission of lawyers, scientists and businessmen, presided over by Lord Justice Cohen, Lord of Appeal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ensued hours of lordly legal buzz-buzz, enlivened when Baron Atkin, a Lord of Appeal, murmured: "But ought we not to inspect the actual sawed-off shotgun?"

From Time Magazine Archive