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The King's Bench Division (or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts. It hears appeals on points of law from magistrates' courts [a] and from the Crown Court.
The court was created on May 30, 1849, as the Court of Queen's Bench (French: Cour du Banc de la Reine) – or Court of King's Bench (Cour du Banc du Roi) depending on the gender of the current monarch serving as head of state first of the United Kingdom, then of Canada. The court's judges had jurisdiction to try criminal cases until 1920, when ...
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; Court of King's Bench of Alberta, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Alberta; Court of King ...
Quebec Court of Queen's Bench (Appeal Side) Senecal v. Hatton and another [1896] UKPC 50 "This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench in Lower Canada which modified a judgment which had been given by the Superior Court." Lord Hobhouse Lord Herschell Sir Barnes Peacock Sir Richard Couch: Appeal dismissed
In 1915, the province passed legislation, The King's Bench Act [12] and The Court of Appeal Act, [13] for the purpose of creating a new court structure. Those acts came into effect on March 1, 1918, resulting in the abolition of the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan and the creation of the trial-level Court of King's Bench and the Court of Appeal ...
Queen's Bench 24 Sir Jeremy Stuart-Smith: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: 18 January 2030: 1 October 2020: 2 October 2012: Queen's Bench 25 Sir Clive Lewis: Churchill College, Cambridge: 13 June 2035: 1 October 2020: 13 June 2013: Queen's Bench 26 Dame Geraldine Andrews: King's College London: 19 April 2034: 1 October 2020: 1 October 2013 ...
The Court is governed by The Court of Appeal Act, 2000, [2] which sets out the composition and jurisdiction of the Court. It hears appeals from the Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan, the Provincial Court of Saskatchewan and a number of administrative tribunals.
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]