CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Hist. Formerly, the presiding judge in the Court of Common Pleas. ? The Judicature Act of 1875 reduced the Court of Common Pleas to the Common Pleas Division. In 1881 the last Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Lord Coleridge, was appointed Lord […]