Editing Lords Temporal (section)

=== Defunct groupings ===

==== Law lords ====

Until the establishment of the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|Supreme Court]] in 2009, a subset of the Lords Temporal – known as the [[Law Lords]] – acted as the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom judicial system.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom |title=Parliamentary sovereignty |url=http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/sovereignty/|access-date=29 January 2012}}</ref> These lords became the first justices of the UK Supreme Court.