Labour, Liberal Democrat and cross-bench peers are discussing joint strategies to torpedo further elements of the bill when it begins its report stage in the Lords on Wednesday. ❋ Unknown (2012)
If successful, he would join the House as a cross-bench peer, without formal party affiliation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Labor has a majority in the lower House of Representatives but it needs the Senate support of either the conservative coalition or all seven cross-bench senators to pass any new laws. ❋ Rachel Pannett (2010)
Make no mistake: their lordships were glorious – the cross-bench independents in particular. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the unending stream of new law it seems that changes have been made to the rules, and that cross-bench sittings may not be okay unless authorised by the Lord Chief Justice or some other grandee. ❋ Bystander (2009)
In particular it facilitated the practice of cross-bench appraisals, whereby a proportion of regular appraisals would be carried out by a suitably trained colleague from another court, giving a perspective untainted by familiarity. ❋ Bystander (2009)
In the short term, this will include reform of the way life peers are appointed, so that party appointees more accurately reflect the proportion of votes cast at the previous general election-though the Government is also committed to maintaining an independent cross-bench presence in the House of Lords. ❋ Alex Allan (2009)
And, while I think that 3-3 being 2 tories and 1 ld and a strictly cross-bench chair from the other place would have been sensible it is true that 4-3 is probably as close as one can get to proportionality to the house on a committee of seven. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She does not address the concerns (raised the by the cross-bench UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights in their report to parliament, published 30 January 2008) (they called the measures astonishing!) that Clauses 64 & 65 of the Counter-Terrorism Bill (dealing with 'secret inquests' & 'special coroners') are a contravention of Article 2 of the ECHR. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Secondly, a great deal of work will have to be done among the cross-bench peers who, as another eurosceptic member of the Upper House told me, now consist of very many of the great and the good. ❋ Helen (2008)
He's going to be taking a cross-bench position apparently. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Purely in the interests of fairness these were the cross-bench Janner-scragger Lord Bramall and the Tory Lords Bougham and Vaux hang on, that's only one and Jopling. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As I recall, you check by all means, the Times named and party-tagged three Labour peers while naming but not party-tagging two Tories and a cross-bench Military Toff. ❋ Unknown (2007)
