House of Lords — Forensic Institutional Review

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Chronology and catalogue links — assessed 10-10-2026: Use the Institutional Involvement Roadmap (1877–2026) for the date-ordered institution/people/evidence sequence. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own catalogue placeholder at GHF-E152; the original has not been attached to that page as at 10-10-2026. A placeholder records an evidence gap; it does not establish the letter’s contents or misconduct.

Forensic Institutional Review — House of Lords

Scope: appellate leave/application stage following the 1987 Court of Appeal decision.

Role

The family’s reconstruction records that further appellate leave was sought after the Court of Appeal judgment. The House of Lords stage must be distinguished from the Court of Appeal merits decision and from the later ECHR application.

Forensic control test

Identify exactly what application was made, what grounds were advanced, what documents were provided, and what the procedural disposition was. The project should not infer that a refusal of leave endorsed every proposition in the Court of Appeal judgment.

Current finding

As at 10-10-2026, the material reviewed does not establish institutional wrongdoing. This does not conclude that every act, omission or record question is resolved. The value of the record is to determine the final procedural history and whether any particular issue was or was not presented for further appeal.

Human action

Obtain the House of Lords leave/application papers and incorporate them into the 1987 judgment reconstruction and preclusion matrix.

Acceptance: final appellate procedural history is documented with exact grounds and disposition.

Institutional appearance timeline — linked source index

Coverage rule: this is a chronological navigation map of published Wiki source pages found by searching the current site index for “House of Lords”. Every event label links directly to the page containing the source. It avoids duplicating source narratives. It records mention/appearance, not culpability. Dates are transcribed from page titles where available; “Date not explicit in title” means the linked source must be consulted. Search indexing is a discovery aid, not proof of exhaustive external coverage. ^🕒

Date shown by source title	Event / source — open evidence	Record class
22 May 1980	GHF-E090-N16 — 22 May 1980: House of Commons, Ted Rowlands MP on Western Ground Rents and the BP pension fund (Hansard)	Published Wiki evidence page
22 May 1980	GHF-E090-N16 — House of Commons, 22 May 1980: Ted Rowlands MP on BP and Western Ground Rents (Hansard)	Published Wiki evidence page
1987	GHF-E142 — 1987 House of Lords petition for leave to appeal: papers	Published Wiki evidence page
3 December 1988	GHF-E090-N08 — “History fight to save farm” (South Wales Echo, 3 December 1988)	Published Wiki evidence page
6 December 1988	GHF-E090-N10 — “Farmer fails in final eviction hearing” (Western Mail, 6 December 1988)	Published Wiki evidence page
c. 30 April 1988	GHF-E090-N07 — c. 30 April 1988: “Chainsaw farmer vows to fight on”	Published Wiki evidence page
c. 7 December 1988	GHF-E090-N11 — “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last” (c. 7 December 1988)	Published Wiki evidence page
Date not explicit in title	Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts	Published Wiki evidence page

Records-access register appearances — direct row links

Rows below match the institution’s name or an alias in the reply register’s sender/reference or recorded description. A match shows an appearance in the records trail, not necessarily an act by this institution.

Date	Correspondence / register item (click to open)	Reading rule
23 Sep 2026	R15 — The National Archives FOI Centre. CAS-347296-M0V4Y1 / CRM:007302479.	Register row contains a name/alias match; inspect the linked row to distinguish sender, recipient and incidental mention.