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            <text>&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;(Sgd.)&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Appd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;CR&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Lord Chancellor, with his humble duty to Your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty’s approval, if you shall so please, the name of Richard Michael Armstrong for appointment to the Office of Master of the King's Bench Division.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also in the event of Your Majesty being graciously pleased to approve the appointment, the Lord Chancellor submits for Your Majesty’s signature, if you shall so please, a Warrant for their appointment to the Office of Master of the King's Bench Division.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Sgd.)&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alex Chalk&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lord Chancellor,&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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            <text>Alex Chalk (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)</text>
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            <text>&lt;span&gt;This submission uses the traditional gendered pronoun for the Lord Chancellor but uses a gender-neutral pronoun for the appointee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This submission doesn't mention that the King's Bench Division is part of the High Court (cf. the &lt;a href="https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/627"&gt;submission for the appointment of a Senior Master&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although a contemporary announcement on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website stated that the King made the appointment on the advice of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice, only the former signed the submission.</text>
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              <text>Alex Chalk's formal advice recommending that King Charles III approve the appointment of Richard Michael Armstrong as Master of the King's Bench Division of the High Court (England and Wales).</text>
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              <text>&lt;span&gt;Submission is undated, and this appointment doesn't seem to have been gazetted. But context suggests it dates from the latter part of 2023.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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              <text>Jason Loch</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/54/section/89" title="Senior Courts Act 1981"&gt;Senior Courts Act 1981&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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