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Where a claim is complex or disputed, or where the Lord Chancellor, having received the application, is not satisfied that the claimant has established a right to succession, the matter is referred here to the House of Lords. It is then passed to a committee for determination; that committee is made up of three current holders of high judicial office—three senior judges—who are not Members of the House and four Members of the House. The committee then reports back to the House. The House usually resolves a claim in line with the committee’s decision—I am not sure what happens if it does not—with this resolution reported to the Crown.