• The Court of Great Sessions in Wales was the main court for the prosecution of felonies and serious misdemeanours in Wales between the Laws in Wales Act...
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    The Crown Court (Welsh: Llys y Goron) is the criminal court of first instance in England and Wales responsible for hearing all indictable offences, some...
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    Assizes (redirect from Court of Assize)
    (/əˈsaɪzɪz/), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished...
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    Justice of Appeal or Lady Justice of Appeal is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the court that hears appeals from the High Court of Justice...
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    helps to preserve its continuity." In the 1536 acts of the Union, a Court of Great Sessions in Wales was created in Wales for four separate circuits. The...
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    Senior Courts of England and Wales. Its name is abbreviated as EWHC (England and Wales High Court) for legal citation purposes. The High Court deals at...
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    Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The Court of Appeal...
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    Other parts of southern Wales were in the hands of various Marcher Lords. The Laws in Wales Acts 1542 created the Court of Great Sessions in Wales based on...
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    Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central...
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    The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid a slow pace of change and possible harshness...
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    to take up office in the territories of the king of England. There were four Court of Great Sessions in Wales based on the three of the counties, e.g...
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    A court of equity, also known as an equity court or chancery court, is a court authorized to apply principles of equity rather than principles of law...
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    president of the courts of England and Wales. Until 2005 the lord chief justice was the second-most senior judge of the English and Welsh courts, surpassed...
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    Exchequer of Pleas, or Court of Exchequer, was a court that dealt with matters of equity, a set of legal principles based on natural law and common law in England...
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  • High sheriff (category Monarchy of the United Kingdom)
    abolition of the Council in 1689, the power of nomination was transferred to the justices of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales. When this court was abolished...
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    Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. At the same time, those Supreme Court justices who already held seats in the House of Lords lost...
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  • Oliver Glasgow (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    in 1995 and practised as a barrister at the Central Criminal Court and on the South Eastern Circuit. Glasgow practises at 2 Hare Court, chambers of Jonathan...
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    answering questions in Parliament and bringing "unduly lenient" sentences and points of law to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. As per the Law Officers...
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  • Martin Stephens (judge) (category Members of Gray's Inn)
    Criminal Court in 1999. He was a former member of the Parole Board of England and Wales. Stephens died on 15 April 2024, at the age of 84. In January 2009...
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    though the present Prince of Wales has only an Attorney General and no Solicitor General. The Solicitor General is addressed in court as "Mr Solicitor" or...
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  • James Miskin (category Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford)
    Chairman of the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions 1968–71 and Recorder of the Crown Court 1972–75. In addition, between 1972–75, he acted as chairman of the London...
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  • of the Great Sessions in Wales and the palatine judicature in 1830. Within the County Palatine (which encompassed Cheshire, the City of Chester, and Flintshire)...
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    The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales. There are four Inns of Court: Gray's Inn, Lincoln's...
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    The Court of King's Bench, formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created...
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    District Court of New South Wales is the intermediate court in the judicial hierarchy of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a trial court and has...
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  • Richard Egan (solicitor) (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    member of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association and Association of Military Court Advocates and Justice. He has gathered local attention in London...
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    made directly responsible to the courts of Westminster rather than falling under the Court of Great Sessions in Wales. According to historian John Davies...
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    justice of the common pleas was the head of the Court of Common Pleas, also known as the Common Bench, which was the second-highest common law court in the...
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  • UK-Pakistan Judicial Protocol on Children Matters (category Children's rights in the United Kingdom)
    protocol between senior family court judges of the Family Division of the High Court in England and Wales and The Supreme Court of Pakistan. The protocol relates...
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    Law Officers Act 1997 (category Law Officers of the Crown in the United Kingdom)
    The Law Officers Act 1997 is an Act of Parliament which allowed the Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland to delegate powers...
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