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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 King's Bench Division (KBD) – or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female – hears a wide range of common law cases and also has special responsibility as a supervisory court. It includes subdivisions such as the Administrative Court, the Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court, and the Admiralty Court.
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 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.
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's Bench of Manitoba, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Manitoba
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]
Law Reports, Queen's Bench, covering decision of the King's Bench Division (named the Queen's Bench Division during the reigns of Victoria and Elizabeth II) of the High Court – started in 1865, [13] renamed Law Reports, Queen's Bench Division in 1875, renamed to drop "Division" in 1891, [14] renamed to take account of the change of monarch in ...