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British judge (born 1966)

The HonourableMrs Justice Cheema-GrubbDBE
Justice of the High Court
Incumbent
Assumed office
25 November 2015
Preceded bySir Kenneth Parker
Personal details
BornParmjit-kaur Cheema
(1966-10-06) 6 October 1966 (age 58)
Yorkshire, UK
Spouse Russell Grubb ​(m. 1990)​
Children3
EducationCity of Leeds School
King's College London

Dame Parmjit Kaur "Bobbie" Cheema-Grubb, DBE (née Cheema; born 6 October 1966), styled Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, is a judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. She is the first Asian woman to serve as a High Court judge in the United Kingdom.

Early life and education

Parmjit-kaur Cheema was born in 1966 to Sikh Punjabi parents who emigrated from India to Great Britain in the 1960s. She grew up in Yorkshire, and attended City of Leeds School before reading law at King's College London.

Legal career

Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1989, Cheema-Grubb, in 2006, became the first Asian woman to be appointed a Junior Treasury Counsel. In 2007, she was promoted Recorder.

In 2013, Cheema-Grubb took silk (QC) serving as Senior Treasury Counsel before receiving authorisation to sit as a deputy High Court judge. She chaired an Advocacy Training Council working group which produced the report "Raising the Bar: The Handling of Vulnerable Witnesses, Victims and Defendants in Court".

Cheema-Grubb successfully acted for the prosecution against retired Anglican Bishop Peter Ball for sexual abuse and against barrister and Recorder Constance Briscoe for perverting the course of justice.

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Judiciary

Appointed as a High Court judge on 22 October 2015, Cheema-Grubb was sworn in to the Queen's Bench on 25 November 2015, receiving the customary accolade of the Realm as DBE.

Personal life

In 1990, she married Russell Grubb and they have three children.

Dame Bobbie and her family are practising Christians.

See also

References

  1. "Senior Judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. "Dame Parmjit Kaur (Bobbie) Cheema-Grubb DBE became the first Asian woman judge in the High Court in October 2015". Twitter.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  3. Kumar, Reena (12 November 2015). "Bobbie Cheema-Grubb: First Asian woman judge in high court". EasternEye. London, UK. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Law Diary". The Times. London, UK. 21 November 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. ^ "First Asian female High Court judge sworn in". BBC News. BBC. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  6. ^ "High Court Judge Appointment: Cheema-Grubb". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. 22 October 2015. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  7. Wilson, Mairi. "Dame Bobbie Cheema-Grubb". graysinn.org.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  8. www.judiciary.uk
  9. Davies, Caroline (23 October 2015). "High court appoints Bobbie Cheema-Grubb as its first Asian female judge". The Guardian. London, UK. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  10. "Two more women elevated to High Court bench". Law Society Gazette. London, UK. 22 October 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  11. www.npg.org.uk
  12. www.city.ac.uk
  13. "Christian barrister becomes first Asian female High Court judge". Premier.org. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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