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The seven Insolvency and Companies Court Judges, one of whom is the Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge, [18] hear and dispose of much of the High Court insolvency (both personal and corporate) and pure company law cases and trials in London (such as cases arising under the Insolvency Act 1986, the Company Directors Disqualification Act ...
High Court judges, like other judges, are appointed on open competition. High Court judges, like all judges in England and Wales, hold office during good behaviour; this is laid down in the Act of Settlement 1701. This gives them greater security of tenure than if they held office during His or Her Majesty's pleasure, and is designed to protect ...
The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 sets out the conditions for the appointments of a President, Deputy President or Justice of the Court. That person must have held high judicial office (judge of the Supreme Court, English High Court or Court of Appeal, Northern Irish High Court or Court of Appeal, or Scottish Court of Session) for at least two years, [6] or have held rights of audience at the ...
Judge in charge of the Administrative Court 59: Dame Karen Steyn: 20 October 2045: 1 October 2019: King's Bench: Judge in charge of the Media and Communications list 60: Sir Nicholas Hilliard: 1 May 2034: 18 November 2019: King's Bench: 61: Sir Andrew Henshaw: 22 April 2037: 2 December 2019: King's Bench: Judge in Charge Commercial Court 62 ...
The judiciaries of the United Kingdom are the separate judiciaries of the three legal systems in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.The judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, Employment Tribunals, Employment Appeal Tribunal and the UK tribunals system do have a United Kingdom-wide jurisdiction but judgments only apply ...
Judge of the Supreme Court Served from Served until Tenure length Replacing Previous judicial office Notes 1 The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers: 1 October 2009: 30 September 2012: 3 years and 0 days: Original justice: Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2008–09) Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2005–08) Master of the Rolls (2000–05)
Their salary was initially £1,000. In 1852, a differential salary scheme was introduced whereby judges were paid £1,500, £1,350, or £1,200. In 1867, their salaries were uniformly set to £1,500. In 1937, it was raised to £2,000, and in 1952 it was raised to £2,800. Thereafter it was regularly adjusted upwards, up to £6,550 in 1969.
The Senior Courts of England and Wales were originally created by the Judicature Acts as the "Supreme Court of Judicature". It was renamed the "Supreme Court of England and Wales" in 1981, [8] and again to the "Senior Courts of England and Wales" by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (to distinguish it from the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom).