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Lord Chief Justice

American

noun

the presiding judge of Britain's High Court of Justice, the superior court of record for both criminal and civil cases.

Lord Chief Justice British

noun

the judge who is second only to the Lord Chancellor in the English legal hierarchy; president of one division of the High Court of Justice

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Lord Chief Justice

Lord Thomas, former Lord Chief Justice, told the BBC's Today Programme that it cannot be a "rubber stamping process" and judges must be satisfied there is no coercion.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

Hale, a Puritan sympathizer and later Lord Chief Justice of England, sent two women to their doom as “witches” after a trial in 1664.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett – the most senior judge in England and Wales – disagreed with his two colleagues.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

James Lewis QC, representing the US, told the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Holroyde the conclusion reached in January had been wrong on legal and evidential grounds.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2021

Yet who can doubt which was the good man of the two, the Lord Chief Justice or the author of the "Saint's Rest"?

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle

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