Albert Burgess

Dan Majestic writes from London: Today we present a press release provided to us by a group of individuals, who have helped to initiate court proceeding in order to dispute the legality of the 1999 House of Lords Act, passed in the Commons during the premiership of Tony Blair that had banned a large number of hereditary peers from sitting in the upper chamber:

‘While the two most senior judges in Britain, namely the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge and the Master of the Rolls Lord Nueberger, have recently publically disagreed on the issue of whether or not the domestic laws of the United Kingdom take precedence over laws made outside the country by the Court of Justice of the European Communities (CJEC). The Lord Chief Justice, who is a well known republican, has told the judiciary of England and Wales that they have no option other than to administer the Laws passed in Luxemburg, while the Master of the Rolls, who is the keeper of the Rolls of Law, has informed the judiciary that they can ignore edicts passed by the CJEC, because the United Kingdom’s domestic laws are supreme and the judges should will not entertain a case in the British courts that challenges this. ‘In the meantime, politicians in the United Kingdom, many of whom support republicanism, either openly or secretly, are involved in disgraceful attempts to undermine Britain’s Constitutional Monarchy, questioning the hereditary principle itself by attacking the hereditary peers and trying to transform the House of Lords into an ‘elected Senate’. Not one of these elected politicians are prepared to inform the people that they are actually waging a war against the British Monarchy, trying to take away all of its powers and change it into a purely ceremonial institution. It is done with the view of making it easy to surrender even more powers to the European Union in the future. None of the conspirators are prepared to reveal that the European Communities Act of 1972 and subsequent treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice and Lisbon contradict the UK constitutional arrangements and laws.

‘With this consideration on December 20, 2010 a claim was issued in the Chancery Division of the High Court in London by Lord Mereworth and served on to the Ministry of Justice, by which his Lordship is seeking a legal ruling that the Labour government had acted unconstitutionally and unlawfully when it prevented the Hereditary Peers from carrying out their duties as counsellors to the Crown. One would have thought that as ministers take an oath of allegiance to the Crown on their appointment, they would not only welcome such an application but would support it.

‘Not so, as it turned out, with the Minister of Justice deciding not to enter a defence and issuing a summons, asking the High Court to strike out the application on the grounds that the High Court of England and Wales does not have the jurisdiction to make a ruling on such an important constitutional matter. This decisions has been successfully defeated by the lawyers acting for the claimant.

With the claim that has been served by Lord Mereworth it would now be possible to finally challenge the so-called dominance of EU laws over the laws of England and Wales and prove the anti-constitutional nature of the 1999 House of Lords Act in an open court. The fact that the claim is supported by a famous QC will obviously cause a huge embarrassment to the British political establishment that is now in panic over the possible constitutional crisis that may erupt in the event if the High Court rules in favour of the claimant.

‘The first hearing in the High Court of Justice is to take place during the morning of 23rd May 2011, the outcome of which will no doubt have far reaching consequences not only for the United Kingdom but also for the whole of the EU.’

Source : http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2011/05/06/high-court-to-rule-on-the-challenge-to-legality-of-1999-house-of-lords-act/

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