Timothy Workman

Who is Timothy Workman?

Senior District Judge Timothy Workman CBE is a leading British judge, a long-term stipendiary magistrate who currently serves as Senior District Judge and Chief Magistrate for London.

From 1967 to 1969, Workman was a probation officer in the Inner London district, before working as a solicitor until 1986, when he was appointed to serve as a Stipendiary Magistrate for the metropolitan district of London. When, in 2000, the Provincial and Metropolitan Stipendiary Benches merged, Workman was made Deputy Senior District Judge. In February 2003, following the retirement of Mrs. Penelope Hewitt CBE, Mr. Workman was appointed by the Lord Chancellor as the Senior District Judge and Chief Magistrate for the London District Bench in the Magistrates Court, and was replaced in his rôle of Deputy Senior District Judge by Miss Daphne Wickham a few months later.

As Chief Magistrate, Mr. Workman chose to sat almost exclusively at the historic Bow Street Magistrates' Court, where he handled the vast majority of all extradition and terrorism cases which passed through his jurisdiction, until that Court was closed.