The Lord Chancellor's New Clothes

Since April 2006, there has been a statutory preservation of the independence of the judiciary under section 3 of the Constitutional reform act 2005 which provides that the Lord Chancellor, other ministers of the Crown and all with responsibility for matters relating to the judiciary or otherwise to the administration of justice must uphold the continued independence of the judiciary.
This provision effectively removes the Lord Chancellor as the head of the judiciary and he also ceases to be the speaker of the House of Lords. The Lord Chief Justice is now the head of the judiciary.