• although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom, it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada?

Facts on topics related to Chancery Amendment Act 1858

Parliament of the United Kingdom

• Captain Richard Whitaker Porritt was the first British Member of Parliament to be killed in World War II?
• Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia?
• British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament, but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?
• British politician David Renton, Baron Renton served for over 60 years in Parliament, representing two parties and then as a life peer, and was the oldest member of the House of Lords when he died?
• Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman, elected the first Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in 2006, was the first woman to give birth while serving as a British Member of Parliament in the 1970s, and is reported to have been the first woman to breast feed at the Palace of Westminster?
• Lawrence Turner, who presented a Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?
• Robert Crouch led the Parliamentary campaign on the Crichel Down affair involving his constituency, which forced the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Sir Thomas Dugdale?
• approximately 37,500 Local and Personal Acts have been passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1539?
• former Anglican clergyman and Liberal Party life peer Tim Beaumont was the only Green Party representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1999 until his death in 2008?
• in 1960, Archbishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara became the first papal representative to visit the British Houses of Parliament in four centuries?

Court of Chancery

• one head of the English Court of Chancery was appointed not due to his legal skill, but because the Queen was impressed by his dancing?

House of Commons of the United Kingdom

• Archibald Church, a veteran of the British intervention in the Russian Civil War and a Labour MP, introduced a eugenics bill to the House of Commons in 1931?
• Charles Langdale was one of the first Roman Catholics in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829?
• Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was nicknamed Teutonic in the British House of Commons after a steamship built by his company Harland & Wolff?
• after losing his House of Commons seat, Denis Shipwright found he "cannot get work" and resorted to advertising in The Times?
• after losing his seat in the House of Commons in January 1910, the British politician and pastor George Nicholls stood again eight times over the next 19 years, without success?
• in 1943, Alec Cunningham-Reid fought a fellow MP in the British House of Commons?
• the United Kingdom House of Commons serves an English white wine called Fumé, produced by Wickham Vineyards?
• while passing through the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Defective Premises Act 1972 was not at all debated in the House of Commons?

Lord Chancellor

• Claud Schuster served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department for a record 29 years under 10 different Lord Chancellors?
• one head of the English Court of Chancery was appointed not due to his legal skill, but because the Queen was impressed by his dancing?
• the 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, grandson of the Liberal Party Lord Chancellor 1st Viscount Buckmaster, served as diplomat in the Middle East until 1981?

Northern Ireland

• "Blood and the Moon" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1928 in response to the 1927 assassination of Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice President of the Executive Council of the Free State?
• civil engineer George Matthew McNaughton was involved with the construction of Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland?
• Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers received death threats from the IRA after performing "Jack in the Box" at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest?
• RAOC officer George Styles was awarded the George Cross in 1972 for defusing booby-trapped bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland, including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast within a matter of days?
• British Conservative MP Sir Adam Butler called in the receivers at the De Lorean Motor Company while serving as minister for economic development in Northern Ireland in 1982?
• Anne Gregg, best known as former presenter of the BBC's travel programme Holiday through the 1980s, was one of the first people from Northern Ireland to become a national British television personality?
• Martin Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland?
• Timothy Creasey, a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland?
• Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles, but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack?
• William Long, Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland at the start of The Troubles, later became the skipper of a fishing boat?

Common law

• Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction?
• a vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in common law countries because they have previously undertaken frivolous litigation claims or procedures?
• in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?
• the Sanhedrin, which is part of the Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text, focuses on criminal law, and that commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis, as recorded in the Talmud, are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles?