Act of Parliament

The final 2.25 miles are known as Bow Creek and follow a meandering route across a low-lying area formerly known as Bromley Marsh but now occupied by gasworks and trading estates The river is one of the oldest navigations in the country, but the creek is tidal, providing insufficient depth for navigation at low tide.

The use of the river for navigation is recorded in documents dating from 1190 and it became the first river in Britain where improvements were authorised by an Act of Parliament, the River Lee Navigation Act of 1425.

The Act allowed the Lord Mayor to make cuts and improvements to the river and to construct towpaths on both sides of it.

This work is thought to have included a new cut between Old Fordham Bow Locks, which is known as Bow River.

And one of the lessons, because I know, you know, Erica, you like practical lessons, was don't take things at face value.

So I've been told that the RSPCA Act, because it was the Act of Parliament as the governing document, prescribed how the board was constituted.

And I was like, yeah, I don't believe that.

So, me and again, the team, it's always about the team, it's never just about me, but me and our incredible chief legal officer got QC's opinion, or KC as it is now, but QC at the time, on that governing document and actually said, that's not true.

It is true that her grandfather, John de Beaufort, was only a natural son, born before his father, John of Gaunt's marriage with his mother, Catherine Swynford.

but the beauforts had been legitimated by an act of parliament in the reign of richard the second and though a reservation of the royal dignity was introduced into the patent when it was confirmed by henry the fourth it is now well known that there is no such exception in the original grant or in the act of parliament of richard the second's time so that failing the issue of john of gaunt by his two previous marriages His descendants by Catherine Swynford, even by sons whom she bore him before marriage, were the true representatives of the House of Lancaster, and could claim the throne itself if that house had any claim to it at all.

It is by no means certain, however, that Henry knew he had this advantage, and the silence of the Act of Parliament declaring his right to the crown, as to its true hereditary character, seems rather to imply that the ground was thought not safe.

No doubt there was another reason for reticence in the fact that the assertion of Henry's own hereditary claim would have discredited that of his wife as the heiress of the House of York, and alienated his Yorkist supporters.

But it seems probable in the nature of things that the reservation inserted by Henry IV in the original patent of Richard II was regarded as a true legal obstacle which it was better simply to ignore than expressly to overrule it in the parliamentary confirmation of Henry's title.

Blount had left Ham's Castle well fortified and reinforced with new soldiers, but he could not be expected to stand a siege by the neighbouring garrison of Calais, and Oxford, who, after being received with joy by Henry in Paris, was immediately sent back to rescue it, was only able to secure for the garrison honourable terms of capitulation.

The preparations made by Henry for the invasion of England were so well known that Richard took the most active measures to meet the coming danger.

He not only issued proclamations against Henry and his adherents, but raised money by forced loans, a thing differing only by a shade from those unpopular benevolences, which he had declared by act of Parliament should no longer be enforced, caused the coast to be guarded, sent the Princess Elizabeth to Sheriff Hutton to be out of the way, and took up his position with an army at Nottingham, in the centre of the kingdom, so as to be equally ready to meet the invader in whatever quarter he might land.

So you had the 1798 rebellion of the United Irishmen occurring in the middle of all of this.

You had the Act of Parliament of 1800. which abolished the Irish Parliament and it was moved to London.

You had Catholic emancipation.

William Pitt, the younger, resigned as Prime Minister in the UK because he couldn't get the King to approve it.

in the AI Act.

And just to finish up, in the UK, we have a new Act of Parliament going through the UK parliamentary process.

And it's essentially a UK AI Act, which mirrors the EU AI Act, which is really great.

Virginia, over to you.

So I think we got down to about 2,800 in the end that then had to be managed.

That was fun, especially when you've got a workforce of 4,000 running around everywhere and any one of those people can breach one of those commitments, which then means essentially you're sort of – it's extreme to say you're breaking the law, but you're going against the Act of Parliament, basically, that's been written.

You're in breach and, you know, you get in trouble and – the bloody, well, all hell breaks loose.

Suddenly you're getting emails from Mark Thurston, you know, the CEO.

And to his complete credit, I think we were there for an hour.

And I think Wes was putting together the final parts of the cancer plan, which is now part of the Act of Parliament that's going through.

And...

He was quite wonderful actually.

Such were the bodies which James now determined to insult and plunder in direct defiance of the laws and of his plighted faith.

Several acts of Parliament, as clear as any that were to be found in the statute book, had provided that no person should be admitted to any degree in either university without taking the oath of supremacy, and another oath of similar character called the oath of obedience.

Nevertheless, in February 1687, a royal letter was sent to Cambridge, directing that a Benedictine monk, named Alban Francis, should be admitted a Master of Arts.

The academical functionaries, divided between reverence for the king and reverence for the law, were in great distress.

But such an irregularity, the effect of mere haste and inadvertence, could not be cited as a precedent.

Foreign ambassadors of various religions, and in particular one Muslim, had been admitted without the oaths.

But it might well be doubted whether such cases fell within the reason and spirit of the Acts of Parliament.

It was not even pretended that any person to whom the oaths had been tendered, and who had refused them, had ever taken a degree, and this was the situation in which Francis stood.