Dame Parmjit Kaur "Bobbie" Cheema-Grubb, (; born 6 October 1966), styled Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, is a

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of the

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of the

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. She is the first Asian woman to serve as a High Court judge in the

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Early life and education

Parmjit-kaur Cheema was born in 1966 to

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parents who emigrated from

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to Great Britain in the 1960s. She grew up in

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, and attended City of Leeds School before reading law at

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Legal career

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in 1989, Cheema-Grubb, in 2006, became the first Asian woman to be appointed a Junior Treasury Counsel. In 2007, she was appointed to sit as a

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. 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 Constance Briscoe (born 18 May 1957 in England) is a former barrister, and was one of the first black female Recorder (judge), recorders in England and Wales. In May 2014, she was jailed for three counts of doing an act tending to Perverting the ...

for perverting the course of justice.

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. They are practising

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Notable cases

2017 Finsbury Park attack On 19 June 2017, an Islamophobic terrorist attack occurred in Finsbury Park, London, England, when a van was intentionally driven into a crowd of Muslim pedestrians near the Muslim Welfare House, from the Finsbury Park Mosque, resulting in ...

Daniel Khalife Daniel Abed Khalife (born 27 September 2001) is a former British Army network engineer and soldier. It is alleged that in January 2022 he left a fake explosive device on his desk, illegally accessed personal information about British soldiers, a ...

David Carrick (serial rapist) David Carrick (born 4 January 1975) is an English serial rapist and former police officer who worked for the Metropolitan Police. He joined the police force in 2001 and worked as an armed officer in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection ( ...

David Fuller David Fuller (born 4 September 1954) is an English convicted murderer and necrophile. In 2021, he was convicted of the murders of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, whom he strangled and sexually assaulted after breaking into their ho ...

Death of Harry Dunn Harry Dunn was a 19-year-old British man who died following a head-on road traffic collision on 27 August 2019. He was riding his motorcycle near Croughton, Northamptonshire, near the exit to RAF Croughton, when a car travelling in the opposit ...

Murder of Zara Aleena On 26 June 2022, Zara Aleena was sexually assaulted and murdered as she was walking home in Ilford, East London, by Jordan McSweeney. The murder attracted attention after it was discovered McSweeney had committed numerous other offences and shoul ...

Murders of Anne Castle and William Bryan In 1993, elderly siblings Anne Castle and William Bryan were attacked and killed during a home invasion in London, England. The crime went unsolved for nearly three decades, when new DNA evidence led to a conviction in 2022. Serial burglar Danvi ...

* Prosper family murders

References

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