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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 King's Bench was merged into the High Court of Justice by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, after which point the King's Bench was a division within the High Court. The King's Bench was staffed by one Chief Justice (now the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales) and usually three Puisne Justices.
The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in the City of Westminster. The High Court of Justice was established in 1875 by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.The Act merged eight existing English courts – the Court of Chancery, the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Exchequer, the High Court of Admiralty, the Court of Probate, the Court for Divorce and ...
The Common Pleas Division was merged into the King's Bench Division in 1881, and all of its remaining Justices were transferred to the latter. The head of the Division was the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; the post was abolished along with the Common Pleas Division in 1881, and its powers vested in the Lord Chief Justice.
While High Court judges all have the same jurisdiction, an appointee is allocated to one of the High Court's three divisions: the Chancery Division, the King's Bench Division and the Family Division. Judges can be transferred from one division to another by the Lord Chancellor.
Lambert was appointed as a High Court judge on 11 January 2018 [11] and assigned to the Kings Bench Division by the Lord Chief Justice. [9] In May 2019, She received the customary title of Dame Commander of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II at St James's Palace. [12] She is an honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. [13]
On 10 June 2013, he was appointed a High Court judge, [3] receiving the customary knighthood in 2014, [4] and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. On 21 October 2019, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal as a Lord Justice of Appeal [5] and has since 5 February 2020 been Vice-President of the King's Bench Division. [6]
King's Bench jurisdiction or King's Bench power is the extraordinary jurisdiction of an individual state's highest court over its inferior courts. In the United States, the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma and Wisconsin [1] use the term to describe the extraordinary jurisdiction of their highest court, called the Court of Appeals in New York or the ...