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The permanent Judges of the Commercial Court are members of the King's Bench Division of the High Court who have been specially selected for their experience and expertise in commercial litigation.

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They are assigned to the Commercial Court under Section 6(2) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, which authorises the Lord Chief Justice to nominate members of the High Court to sit as Commercial Judges. (The same Section also authorises the Lord Chief Justice to nominate the Admiralty Judge, who is normally one of the Commercial Judges.) There are usually around fifteen nominated Judges at any time.

Periodically, one of them is chosen to act as Judge In Charge, with overall responsibility for the running of the Court. The Judge In Charge sits in the Commercial Court throughout the legal year. Most of the other nominated Judges spend about half of each year in the Commercial Court, and deal with other types of King’s Bench business, such as criminal trials and cases in the Technology & C david foxton biography2 QUKEG