Kids Corner

People

Dame Parmjit ‘Bobbie’ Kaur Cheema-Grubb

WIKIPEDIA

 

 

 






Dame Parmjit ‘Bobbie’ Kaur Cheema-Grubb DBE is a judge of the Queen'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.

Parmjit Kaur‘s parents came to the United Kingdom in the 1960s from Punjab. She was born in England in 1966, grew up in Leeds, and attended City of Leeds School before studying law at King's College, London.

She was called to the bar in 1989. In 2006, she became the first Asian woman to be appointed a Junior Treasury Counsel. The following year, in 1990, she married Russell Grubb. In 2007, she became a recorder.

In 2013, she was appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC). She served as a Senior Treasury Counsel and was authorised to sit as a deputy High Court judge. She chaired an Advocacy Training Council working group that produced the report "Raising the Bar: The Handling of Vulnerable Witnesses, Victims and Defendants in Court".

Parmjit Kaur successfully acted for the prosecution against retired Church of England bishop Peter Ball for sexual abuse and against Barrister and Recorder Constance Briscoe for perverting the course of justice.

On 22 October, 2015, Parmjit Kaur's appointment as a High Court judge was announced. She was sworn in on 25 November, 2015.



[Courtesy: Wikipedia. Edited for sikhchic.com]
March 2, 2018
 

Conversation about this article

Comment on "Dame Parmjit ‘Bobbie’ Kaur Cheema-Grubb"









To help us distinguish between comments submitted by individuals and those automatically entered by software robots, please complete the following.

Please note: your email address will not be shown on the site, this is for contact and follow-up purposes only. All information will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Sikhchic reserves the right to edit or remove content at any time.