(1) eg., the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Dacre, and the Earl of Roseberry on Thursday 26th February 1824 and the Earl of Jersey, Viscount Gordon and the Duke of Clarence on Friday the 27th  (Brightman 1999).

(2) An attempt by Michael Shrimpton to put the ‘metric matyr’ case (where a greengrocer, Steve Thorburn, had been prosecuted for using imperial scales and selling by the pound) in 2001 before the whole house floundered early when the prerequisite, leave to appeal, was denied by Lords Bingham, Steyn and Scott. Such an attempt was most unlikely to have succeeded anyway given the convention following Bradlaugh.

(3) Hope (2005, p.255) adds that, with views over the River Thames, it was also much more congenial.

(4) “As full members of the House of Lords the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary have a right to participate in the business of the House. However, mindful of their judicial role they consider themselves bound by two general principles when deciding whether to participate in a particular matter, or to vote: first, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary do not think it appropriate to engage in matters where there is a strong element of party political controversy; and secondly the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary bear in mind that they might render themselves ineligible to sit judicially if they were to express an opinion on a matter which might later be relevant to an appeal to the House. … In deciding who is eligible to sit on an appeal, the Lords of Appeal agree to be guided by the same principles as apply to all judges. These principles were restated by the Court of Appeal in the case of Locabail (UK) Ltd v. Bayfield Properties Ltd [[1999] EWCA Civ 3004]” (Lord Bingham 2000, col. 419).

(5) Public Whip (www.Publicwhip.org.uk) is a project which aims to make voting records freely available to the public so that the public can better understand, and influence, the voting records of MPs and Peers. Its figures are derived by a program written by the founders which reads through and extracts the votes from Hansard as published on the UK Parliament website (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm.

(6) Lords Nicholls of Birkenhead, Hoffmann, Hope of Craighead, Hutton, Millett, Rodger of Earlsferry; Lords Bingham of Cornhill, Steyn, Saville of Newdigate, Walker of Gestingthorpe took a different view.

(7) Whereas there could be the, unjustified, perception that an un-ennobled Justice of the Supreme Court might be acting in a particular way so as to receive a life peerage or other equivalent honour.