Bobbie Cheema-Grubb
British judge (born 1966)
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Dame Parmjit Kaur "Bobbie" Cheema-Grubb, DBE (née Cheema; born 6 October 1966), styled Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, is a judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.[1][2] She is the first Asian woman to serve as a High Court judge in the United Kingdom.
6 October 1966
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb | |
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| Justice of the High Court | |
| Assumed office 25 November 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Kenneth Parker |
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| Born | Parmjit-kaur Cheema 6 October 1966 Yorkshire, UK |
| Spouse |
Russell Grubb (m. 1990) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | City of Leeds School King's College London |
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.[3] She grew up in Yorkshire, and attended City of Leeds School before reading law at King's College London.[4][5]
Legal career
Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1989,[6][7] Cheema-Grubb, in 2006, became the first Asian woman to be appointed a Junior Treasury Counsel.[4] In 2007, she was appointed to sit as a Recorder.
In 2013, Cheema-Grubb took silk (QC)[6] serving as Senior Treasury Counsel before receiving authorisation to sit as a deputy High Court judge.[6] 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".[8]
Cheema-Grubb successfully acted for the prosecution against retired Anglican Bishop Peter Ball for sexual abuse[9] and against barrister and Recorder Constance Briscoe for perverting the course of justice.[10]
Judiciary
Appointed as a High Court judge on 22 October 2015,[6] Cheema-Grubb was sworn in to the Queen's Bench on 25 November 2015,[5] receiving the customary accolade of the Realm as DBE.[11]
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.[12]
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Personal life
In 1990, she married Russell Grubb and they have three children.[13] They are practising Christians.[14]
Notable cases
- 2017 Finsbury Park attack
- Daniel Khalife
- David Carrick (serial rapist)
- David Fuller
- Death of Harry Dunn
- Murder of Zara Aleena
- Murders of Anne Castle and William Bryan
- Prosper family murders
- Kingsbury High School stabbing
- Ahmed Ali Alid (Hartlepool terror attack 2023)[15]