enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. King's Bench Division - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Bench_Division

    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.

  3. Court of King's Bench (England) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King's_Bench...

    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.

  4. King's Bench - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Bench

    The King's Bench (French: Cour du banc du Roi [n 1]), or, during the reign of a female monarch, the Queen's Bench (Cour du banc de la Reine), refers to several contemporary and historical courts in some Commonwealth jurisdictions.

  5. High Court of Justice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice

    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 ...

  6. Justice of the King's Bench - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_of_the_King's_Bench

    The Justices of the King's Bench at work. This illuminated manuscript from about 1460 is the earliest known depiction of the English court. [1]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.

  7. Court of King's Bench (Ireland) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King's_Bench...

    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.

  8. Quebec Court of Appeal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Court_of_Appeal

    The court was created on May 30, 1849, as the Court of Queen's Bench (Cour du Banc de la Reine in French) – or Court of King's Bench (Cour du Banc du Roi in French) 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 ...

  9. Court of King's Bench of Manitoba - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King's_Bench_of...

    The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba 1870–1950: A Biographical History. Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. McCullough, Sharon Gail. 2000. Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench in Equity, 1872–1895: A Study in Legal Administration and Records. Winnipeg, University of Manitoba. Smandych, Russell, and Karina Sacca. 1996.