Law and Politics
- Bench (metonymy), certain people in a given context, associated with a particular seating area, especially in politics and law
- Bench (law), the location where a judge sits while in court, often a raised desk in a courtroom; also refers to the judiciary as a whole (to differentiate from the bar (law) – the lawyers or barristers); and may also mean a group of judges hearing a case and judging on a case.
- As a specific application of the former, the panel or body of justices of the peace in a specific county under the traditional English system of magistracy.
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