Parliament & Politics Questions and Answers: New peer gets
Pinochet role
THE CHAIRMAN of the BSE inquiry, Sir Nicholas Phillips, took his seat as a new law lord. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers will be one of the seven peers who will hear the fresh appeal by former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet against moves to extradite him to Spain. He becomes a law lord on the retirement of Lord Lloyd of Berwick.
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