Talk:Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

message: At the moment the entry is misleading in that it does not properly explain what happened between the coming into force of the Judicature Act 1873 on 1st November 1875 and the abolition of the Common Pleas and Exchequer divisions of the High Court on 16 December 1880. 
In the interim there was not a single Lord Chief Justice -- in that Cockburn CJ and Kelly B retained their positions alongside Lord Coleridge (Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) and their posts were not abolished until the abolition of their divisions which happened after their death.
Francis Davey 20:39, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reform 

message: In order to hold this office you have to be a peer, at least one person, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield was created a peer so that he could fill this role. Should we be listing the names with the peerage title or without?
:This is not correct - Murray held the post from 1756, and only was made Earl of Mansfield in 1776.  His predecessor, Sir Dudley Ryder, held the post for two years without ever becoming a peer.  Nor did his predecessor, Sir William Lee...in the 18th century, a peerage does not seem to have been a requirement for this office.  In fact, even in the nineteenth century we see that Sir Alexander Cockburn was never made a peer.  This suggests that while a peerage is common for this post, it is not a requirement. john k 06:15, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: 6 months later...I was wrong about Mansfield, who was made Baron Mansfield in 1756.  But my larger point still stands. john k 00:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need for a peerage 

message: "Presently the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the Lord Phillips of Worth Maltravers, who suceeded Lord Woolf on October 1, 2005." Shouldn't it be "...is Lord Phillips of Worth Maltravers..."? Apokrif 16:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He's a substantive peer so the use of the definitive article is formally correct. - Chrism 15:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definite article 

message: The list of chief justices gives Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale as the first one, from 1268-1269. But he was born in 1250, making him 18 or 19. Should this actually read Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, who was already already a judge by then? Richard75 20:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually a different person altogether. The Oxford DNB says that Sir Robert de Briwes, the justice, "has often in the past been the victim of a confusion of identities" and "linked with the Brus family which claimed the Scottish throne at the end of the thirteenth century". "In fact his principal interests lay in Somerset..." I've ghanged the name to reflect this, he should in fact have his own article. Lampman (talk) 18:43, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First chief justice 

message: I've found a complete list of the Chief Justices of the King's Bench, with appointment dates, so on. Since the King's Bench was a court in its own right, does anyone have a problem with me splitting this list off and the list consisting only of the actual Lord Chief Justices? Ironholds (talk) 12:38, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Split off

message: Is the article's ranking obsolete since the creation of the new Supreme Court?
"The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 10 December 2009
The report below, described Lord Judge as "Britain's most senior judge". This is not a recognised designation. Lord Judge has seniority in the judiciary of England and Wales, serving as lord chief justice in that realm, as the article noted. The United Kingdom's most senior judge, according to the Ministry of Justice, is the president of the new supreme court – though even then, his is not the court of highest authority in Scottish criminal cases: that is Scotland's high court of justiciary."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/20/free-speech-in-parliament-precious?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
24.77.80.153 (talk) 00:18, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the article's ranking obsolete since the creation of the new Supreme Court? 

message: Apparent omission: Francis Pemberton was moved to common pleas in 1682, Saunders was appointed in his place, then died in 1683. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:50, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Edmund Saunders]]

message: I saw that someone had added a media wiki table for peerages, but the peerages were listed as bullets. Since the table was missing data, I hid it until further discussion/research could be completed. WikiIsKnowledge (talk) 05:16, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki table peerages 

message: This should be done through WP:RM as it's not as simple as moving to the title of the current holder. This article is about the office not the current holder. DeCausa (talk) 08:47, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title