In 2000, the European Court of Human Rights held in McGonnell v United Kingdom that there was a breach of Article 6 in Guernsey where the Bailiff or Deputy Bailiff sat as President of the States of Guernsey when proposed legislation was being debated and then subsequently sat as a judge of the Royal Court of Guernsey in a case where that legislation was relevant.

In December 2010, a committee chaired by Lord Carswell recommended changes to the role of the Bailiff — in particular that the Bailiff should cease to the presiding officer over the States assembly.

* Jean de Baudricourt, Lord of Choiseul and Bailiff of Chaumont ( died 1499 ), Marshal of France in 1486

The town was recorded as Gravesham in Domesday Book in 1086 as belonging to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux: the name probably derived from " graaf-ham ": the home of the Reeve, or Bailiff, of the Lord of the Manor.

Beside that he was also the Lord of numerous Lordships, Alcalderías and honourable charges: Señor de los Estados de la Campana de Albalat y la Serena, de Lago de Albufera ( Valencia ), and of the Villages of Huetor de Santillan y Veas, Señor de los Sotos de Roma y Aldovea, Perpetual Regedor ( Rector ) of the Villages of Madrid, Nava del Rey and Reus, and the Cities of Burgos, Segovia, Valencia, Murcia, Ronda, Manresa, Guadalajara, Gerona, Barcelona, Peñíscola, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Lérida, Toledo, Toro, Zamora, Asunción de Paraguay, Buenos Aires and México ; preeminent Veinte y Quatro ( Twenty-Four ) of Jerez de la Frontera, Sevilla and Jerez de los Caballeros ; Almerante-Mayor ( Admiral-Major ) of Spain and the Indies ; Captain-General of the Royal Armies, Captain of the Body Guards, Hermano Mayor ( Greater Brother ) and Perpetual Alcalde of the Holy and Royal Old Brotherhood of Toledo, with voice, vote and Presidency ; President of the Royal Colegial Body of the Hidalgos of the Nobility of Madrid ( 1804 ), Gentleman of the Chamber of His Catholic Majesty, with exercise, Counsilor of State, Prime-Minister of King Don Carlos IV, Commander of Valencia del Ventoso, Rivera and Acheucal in the Order of Santiago, Knight of the Order of Santiago ( 1790 ), Knight of the Renowned Order of the Golden Fleece, Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, Bailiff of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, etc.

Upon returning to Britain, Lord and Lady Wakehurst worked with community organisations including the Order of St John of Jerusalem, of which Wakehurst was Lord Prior from 1948 to 1969, subsequently also a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order ( GCStJ ), and for the English-Speaking Union.

He was Chancellor ( 1988 – 1991 ) and Lord Prior ( 1991 – 2002 ) of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem and was made Bailiff Grand Cross of this order ( GCStJ ) in 1987.

* County Court Bailiff

For example, a County Court Judge, Superior Court Judge, and Circuit Court Judge may have at least one Bailiff who is in charge of calling a jury, seating a jury, as well as attending to a juror's needs.

The Bailiff presides in the main trial court in his island — the Royal Court of Jersey and the Royal Court of Guernsey, where they sit with Jurats ', elected lay judges responsible for making finds of fact.

A Deputy Bailiff in each Bailiwick may preside in the Royal Court and States Chamber when the Bailiff is not available.

The Court, noting that there was no suggestion that the Bailiff ' was subjectively biased ', stated that the ' mere fact ' that this happened was capable of casting doubt on the Bailiff's impartiality.

The Royal Court, under the presidency of the Bailiff, originally not only administered the law of the Island, but also wrote it.

Commissions of the Royal Court ( acting judges ) now ensures that the Bailiff never sits on a case which relied on a law that he had taken part in the legislative process for.

* President of the Court of Appeal, though in practice the Bailiff rarely sits in this court

* President of the College of Electors under the Royal Court ( Jersey ) Law 1948 for the election of Jurats ( existing Jurats, Senators, Deputies, Connétables and all practising advocates and solicitors ); the Bailiff is a member, but may only vote in the event of a tie after a second ballot

** Lieutenant Bailiffs ( usually Jurats ) and Commissioners, any of whom may preside over the Royal Court and exercise other judicial functions of the Bailiff as required.

Livery Companies are governed by a Master ( known in some Companies as the Prime Warden or Bailiff ), a number of Wardens ( who may be known as the Upper, Middle, Lower, or Renter Wardens ), and a Court of Assistants, which elects the Master and Wardens.

He is also a Past Upper Bailiff and Member of Court of the Worshipful Company of Weavers.

They form, with the Bailiff as presiding judge, the Royal Court in each Bailiwick.

The Bailiff of Jersey laid in the foundations a box containing copies of the Acts of the States relating to the college, Jersey coins, and two medallions, one of silver, the other of bronze, depicting the arrival of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Jersey in 1846, and a copper plate engraved with an inscription of the date of the founding of the college and the names of States Members, Officers of the Royal Court and the architect.

Unlike a County Court Bailiff, who is a civil servant, an HCEO is a private individual.

The lowest courts in the Isle of Man are presided over by the High Bailiff and the Deputy High Bailiff, along with lay Justices of the Peace.

Senior Jurats may be appointed as Lieutenant-Bailiffs to perform some ceremonial duties in lieu of the Bailiff on occasion as well as presiding over judicial proceedings generally of an administrative nature.

For the first time the Crown laid down the Bailiff ’ s precedence over the Governor in judicial affairs and in the States chamber.

In 1921, the property and financial powers of the Assembly of Governor, Bailiff and Jurats was taken over by the States of Jersey, leaving that assembly with only power to act as licensing bench.

Presbyterians and Quakers in particular also had a level of influence within the town that was disproportionate to their numbers, customarily holding the position of Low Bailiff – the most powerful position in the town's local government – from 1733, and making up over a quarter of the Street Commissioners appointed in 1769, despite being legally barred from holding office until 1828.

The college was controlled by the Assembly of Governor, Bailiff and Jurats until 1921 when the States took over the assets of that Assembly ( including the college ) along with most of its powers.

* Bailiff, summonsed the Jury and, if necessary, performed arrests, as well as generally supervising court matters.

Yasujirō Ozu directed Good Morning ( 1959 ) and Floating Weeds ( 1958 ), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ), and was shot by Rashomon / Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Bailiff Bull Shannon responds that it is " sudden flash of insight derived from a profound empathetic experience.

In 2011 the Chancellor appointed Adams to the British title of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead to allow him to resign from the House of Commons and to stand for election in the Dáil.

Real Life Bailiff and ' one time actor ' Aldo DeMeo and Dustin Hoffman between takes from the scene when ' Lenny ' is dragged from the courtroom

It got its name from the Bailiff of's-Hertogenbosch, who ruled the area in the name of the Dukes of Brabant.

He held ( in absentia ) the office of Bailiff of Jersey from 1715.

Appointment to the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead is a procedural device to effect resignation from the House of Commons, since a British MP is not permitted simply to resign his seat.

After announcing his intention to resign from the United Kingdom Parliament in order to stand in the 2011 Irish general election, Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams was appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.

Other sinecures operate as legal fictions, such as the British office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, used as a legal excuse for resigning from Parliament.

By constitutional convention he or she ( though to date there have been no women holders of the office ) and the Deputy Bailiff are invariably selected from among those who have previously held the senior office within the Law Officers of the Crown – the Procureur in Guernsey and the Attorney General in Jersey.

Although the need for centralised administration during the German Occupation 1940-1945 made the Bailiff a commanding figure in the circumstances of trying to maintain the life of the Bailiwick, the constitutional reforms of 1948 which removed the Jurats from the States, replacing them with Senators, separated more clearly legislature and judiciary.

The 2005 Law also introduced a ministerial system of government under a chief minister, which further removed the Bailiff from involvement in executive decision-making.

Outgoing official correspondence to the Ministry of Justice ( the UK government department responsible for relations with the Island ) goes from the Bailiff via the Lieutenant Governor, with input from the Attorney General.

In 1789, Bailiff Count Giulio Renato de Litta, while on an official visit from the Knights of Malta, assisted with the reorganization of Russia's Baltic Fleet, and later served as a commander with the Russian Imperial Navy in the war against Sweden.

A further decree was issued in 1817 forbidding Army Officers from wearing their decorations because they received them from outside of Russia from a foreign Bailiff of the Roman Catholic Order, which no longer officially existed in Russia by then.

David Denne of the family of that name from Lydd was Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the County of Kent, and formerly Captain of the East Kent and Cinque Ports Yeomanry, and Bailiff of the town Corporation 23 times.