The most sensible contribution to the BSkyB affair was made by the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, who said that such decisions should not rest with ministers, because that made them political.
Lord Hunt, the PCC chairman, is leading efforts to create a successor body to the discredited press regulator, supported by Lord Phillips, the former lord chief justice of England and Wales.
Many of his former colleagues in the Labour party attended the service, including the health secretary, John Reid, the transport secretary, Alistair Darling, Lord Irvine, the former lord chancellor, and the former Scottish secre tary, Helen Liddell.
Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was concerned that Judge Spielmann was claiming too much power for a body of unelected judges whose rulings could not be challenged.
Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice, told the Lords on November 9 that the bill was "a matter of grave concern to the judiciary".
They could include Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the former lord chancellor, and David Blunkett, the former home secretary and work and pensions secretary.
Dear's successful rebellion in the Lords had been supported by four former Metropolitan police commissioners, a former lord chancellor, a former director of public prosecutions and a former president of the supreme court.
The former lord chancellor Lord Falconer has introduced a private member's bill in the Lords aimed at legalising assisted dying.
Suggestions that the former lord chancellor Charles Falconer would return to politics as shadow leader of the Lords, opposing Lord Strathclyde, were dismissed.
As a result of Arden's campaign, Tony Blair's lord chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, the former president of the supreme court Lord Phillips, and the former lord chief justice Lord Woolf lost their honorary status.
