In Fiction
The 1949 movie Kind Hearts and Coronets, set around 1900, depicts trial of a peer by the House of Lords.
Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey book, Clouds of Witness, depicts trial of a peer (Wimsey's brother) by the House of Lords.
Read more about this topic: Judicial Functions Of The House Of Lords
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)