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In 2013, Wall was appointed a deputy High Court judge in the Administrative Court and was appointed a circuit judge a year later. On 1 October 2020, Wall was appointed a judge of the High Court, following the promotion of Sir Richard Arnold to the Court of Appeal, and he was assigned to the Queen's Bench Division (now King's Bench Division).
During the Commonwealth of England, from 1649 to 1660, the court was known as the Upper Bench. [2] The English Court of King's Bench was abolished in 1875 by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873. The Court's jurisdiction passed in each case to a new High Court of Justice and specifically to the King's Bench Division of that court.
The Queen's Bench thus ceased to exist, holding its last session on 6 July 1875, [32] except as the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court. [33] The existence of the same courts as divisions of one unified body was a quirk of constitutional law, which prevented the compulsory demotion or retirement of Chief Justices.
Justice of the King's Bench, or Justice of the Queen's Bench during the reign of a female monarch, was a puisne judicial position within the Court of King's Bench, under the Chief Justice. The King's Bench was a court of common law which modern academics argue was founded independently in 1234, having previously been part of the curia regis. [2]
Arms of Whiddon: Argent, a chevron between three spearheads gules [1] Sir John Whiddon (died 27 January 1576) of Whiddon in the parish of Chagford in Devon, was a Justice of the Queen's Bench from 4 October 1553 to his death on 27 January 1576, [2] during the reigns of Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I.
The High Court was itself abolished by Section 40 of the Government of Ireland Act 1920. That section created a High Court in Northern Ireland, which still contains a Queen's Bench Division, with similar jurisdiction to its counterpart in England and Wales. In the Republic of Ireland the jurisdiction passed to the new High Court of Ireland.
She was appointed as a High Court judge in April 2010, assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, and received the customary damehood. She was Presiding Judge of the Midlands Circuit from 2011 to 2015. [7] [8] She was promoted to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in February 2017. [9]
On 1 October 2019, Cavanagh was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. [5] He received the customary knighthood in the same year. . Since 2021, he has been Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit, replacing Sir Andrew Edis who was promoted to the Court of Ap