The Deputy Bailiff Law 1958 created the office of Deputy Bailiff to cope with the Bailiff's increasing workload. The list below is of holders of the office of Deputy Bailiff who were not subsequently appointed as Bailiff.
Under the Royal Court Law 1948, , Commissioners of the Royal Court are appointed by the Bailiff for the hearing of a specified cause or matter or a specified term.
Current Commissioners of the Royal Court
Former Commissioners of the Royal Court
Sir Richard Tucker, a retired High Court judge. He 'was initially appointed for a number of individual cases but in April 2004 was appointed for 12 months', an appointment that was renewed annually until his 80th birthday.
Lord Sumption OBE PC QC. Already serving as a judge of the Jersey Court of Appeal, he was appointed as a Commissioner of the Royal Court in December 2010 but stated his intention to relinquish his judicial appointments in Jersey before he took his seat on the UK Supreme Court.
Jurats
The Jurats are lay people who are the judges of fact when the Royal Court sits as the Inferior Number, and also pass sentence in criminal matters heard by the Royal Court. They hold office until the age of 72.
1955-__ Brigadier Stuart Douglas Graham, formerly a professional soldier
1957-__ Francis Renouf Billot
1958-__ Edward John Syvret
1959-__ Cecil Ernest Esnouf
1959-__ Capt Bertram Liott Blampied, educated at Victoria College and Sandhurst, grandson of Jurat T. Blampied and Jurat C.G. Renouf
1960-__ Francis Le Boutillier
1962-__ Alfred John Du Feu
1963-__ William Eugene de Faye, educated at Victoria College, called to the English and Jersey Bars in 1925, worked in banking in England and Jersey, chairman of the Jersey branch of the United Nations Association
1963-__ John Herbert Pallot
1964-__ Stuart Philip Pepin
1964-__ Richard Durnford Lloyd, educated at Victoria College, called to the English and Jersey Bars in 1937, served in the Colonial Legal Service in Nigeria and Malta
1965-__ Francis Edward Luce, educated at , farmer, served as a Deputy 1954-65
1966-__ Ralph Edward Bishop Voisin, educated at Victoria College, called to the Jersey Bar in 1925, served as Deputy for St Brelade 1937-45, Magistrate 1957-64
1972-82 Lester Vivian Bailhache MA, educated at Victoria College, Shrewsbury and Merton College, Oxford, called to the English Bar and in 1933 to the Jersey Bar, Lieutenant Bailiff 1980-82, Deputy of St Clement; his sons, Sir Philip Bailhache and William Bailhache, became Bailiffs.
1974-__ Herbert Henry Le Quesne
1974-__ Henry Perrée
1975-__ Raymond Helleur le Cornu
1975-__ Hon John Coutanche, a brewer and son of a former Bailiff, Lord Coutanche
1975-__ John Harold Vint, a farmer
1977-__ Maxwell Gordon Lucas
1977-86 Leslie Alexander Picot, educated at , qualified as an accountant in 1934 becoming a partner in Alex Picot & Co, Methodist local preacher
1977-__ George Norman Simon
1980-20__ Peter Gilroy Blampied
1980-2001 Barbara Myles OBE, a medical practitioner specialising in children's medicine and free-lance journalist, served on the Jersey Juvenile Court Panel 1970-80, first woman jurat
1982-__ Clarence Sheppard Dupré
1985-__ Michael Walter Bonn, educated at Eton, director of a number of finance companies, served as Deputy of St Peter 1978-84
1986-__ John James Morel Orchard, educated in the UK and Ireland, had a career in banking after service in the RAF
1986-__ Geoffrey Hubert Hamon
1986-____ Charles Leonard Gruchy, veterinary surgeon, educated at Victoria College and Edinburgh University
1987-2003 Mazel Joan Le Ruez MBE, educated at the Girls Collegiate School, became Island Commissioner of the Girl Guides, guest house proprietor, served as a panel member of the Juvenile Court
1989-____ Alfred Vibert, farmer, director of a building firm, guest house proprietor involved in the Honorary Police in St Brelade
1995-2011 Philip John de Veulle OBE, retired chartered accountant, also served as chairman of the Jersey Heritage Trust
1996-2004 Arthur Philip Quérée, Connétable of St Ouen
1997-2010 Sally Carolyn Le Brocq OBE, founding member of Victim Support Jersey, daughter of the Bailiff Cecil Harrison
1997-2012 John Claude Tibbo : educated at Victoria College, worked for Midland Bank in Jersey for 37 years until his retirement in 1996, Commissioner of the Jersey Financial Services Commission 1998-2005 and in 2011 was appointed a non-executive director of Jersey Development Company Ltd
1998-2009 Roy Malcolm Bullen, formerly the Jersey Harbourmaster and chairman of the Jersey Lifeboat Management Group
1998-2012 John Lyndon Le Breton, former Vice Principal of Victoria College
1999-2006 Donald Henry Georgelin
1999-2009 Geoffrey Charles Allo
2003-11 Lorna Jean King, MBE,a former nurse and founder of Jersey Hospice Care
2004-09 Mary Newcombe, formerly Greffier to the States of Jersey
2004-11 Paul Frith Liddiard, a dental surgeon.
Magistrates and Assistant Magistrates of Jersey
Former Magistrates
1950s E.A. Dorey CBE
1957-1964 Ralph Edward Bishop Voisin: he was elected as a Jurat in 1966
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1999-2008 Ian Le Marquand: educated at Victoria College, after private practice he served as Judicial Greffier and Master of the Royal Court. In 2008 he was elected a Senator in the States of Jersey and serves as minister for home affairs in the Council of Ministers.
?-2013 Ian Christmas: Mr Christmas has not sat judicially since 2008 when an investigation into allegations of fraud commenced; he was convicted in 2012 but remained in office until he resigned in February 2013.
