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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 ...
The Court of King's Bench grew out of the King's Court, or Curia Regis, which, both in character and the essence of its jurisdiction, dates back to the reign of King Alfred. At first, it was not specifically a court of law, but was the centre of royal power and national administration in England, consisting of the King, together with his ...
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 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.
Court of King's Bench (England), a historic court of common law in the English legal system until 1875; Court of King's Bench (Ireland), a historic senior court of common law in Ireland; King's Bench Division, a division of the High Court of England and Wales that assumed many of the responsibilities of the historic King's Bench in 1875
Queen's Bench Division (1891–1901, 1952–2022)/King's Bench Division (1901–1952, 2022–present) (From 1907, this series included decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeal in place of the former Court for Crown Cases Reserved.) Probate (Replaced in 1972 by a series called Family, due to the creation of the Family Division of the High Court)
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Usually a divisional court sits with two judges but occasionally the bench comprises three judges. [2] The best known divisional court is that of the Administrative Court, which is a specialist court in the King's Bench Division which deals with judicial review claims, some criminal appeals (including by case stated) and writs of habeas corpus. [2]