Judge of Alderney

[1] The position is equivalent to that of a judge of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

[3] Appeals from decisions of the court may be made to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

In 1825, the hereditary Governor of Alderney, John Le Mesurier III, returned his family's fiefdom over Alderney to the Crown in exchange for an annual pension.

That office of governor being thus in effect abolished, the Judge of Alderney, as highest Crown appointment there, assumed the role of leader.

Further, the Judge's right to sit in the States of Alderney was removed, judiciary and legislature now being more separated.