King's Bench Division
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The King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases in England and Wales and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts.
Westminster Hall, meeting place of the Court of King's Bench from 1215 until the King's Bench was abolished in England in 1875
An illuminated initial membrane, with portrait of Elizabeth I, Court of King's Bench: Coram Rege Roll (Easter Term, 1584)
The lord or lady chief justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary of England and Wales and the president of the courts of England and Wales.
Ralph de Hengham
Portrait of Sir John Fortescue by William Faithorne cropped
Sir Edward Montagu