Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
(Law Lords) Formerly, up to 12 persons, holders of high judicial office or practising barristers of at least 15 years’ standing, who were appointed to life peerages under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to carry out the judicial functions of the House of Lords. Under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 these functions were transferred to a new Supreme Court and the Law Lords were removed from the legislature.

• basic award
• basic intent
• battered child
• battered spouse
• Battered Woman Syndrome
• battery
• bay
• bearer
• beauty contest
• bed and breakfasting
• Beddoe order
• behaviour
• belligerent communities, recognition of
• bench
• Benchers
• bench warrant
• beneficial interest
• beneficial owner
• beneficiary
• beneficiary principle
• benefits in kind
• benevolent purposes
• Benjamin order
• bequeath
• bequest