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Law Lords Noun, pl (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal
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Thank God, the law lords have seen sense," wrote The Guardian's Madeleine Bunting on March 22. Upholding the guidelines in 1985, the law lords ruled that a girl under 16 has the legal capacity to consent to examination and treatment if she has sufficient maturity to understand the nature and implications of the proposed treatment. Her lawyers began arguments Wednesday before a panel of five Law Lords - judges who sit in the upper chamber of Parliament and constitute Britain's highest appeals court. |
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