Bobbie Cheema-Grubb
Dame Parmjit Kaur "Bobbie" Cheema-Grubb,, styled Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, is a [High Court High Court judge (England and Wales)|judge (England and Wales)|judge] of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. She is the first Asian woman to serve as a High Court judge in the United Kingdom.
Early life and education
Parmjit Kaur Cheema was born in 1966 to Sikh Punjabi parents who emigrated from India to Great Britain in the 1960s. She grew up in Yorkshire, and attended City of Leeds School before reading law at King's College London.Legal career
Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn 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 Recorder.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 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.In 2025, Cheema-Grubb was judge at the trial of Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, whom she sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russia bribes.