"Timothy Workman" CBE is a leading United Kingdom/British judge, a long-term stipendiary magistrate who serves as Senior Judiciary of England and Wales#District Judges/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/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 rĂ´le 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. He now sits at the former Horseferry Road MC, now known as City of Westminster Magistrates' Court.

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This is a difficult and troubling case.

I have reached the conclusion that the risk of (the death penalty) ... being imposed by a civilian court is negligible.

I'm told it is possible we are able to make progress on 6 October. I'm remanding you in custody for reasons given on previous occasions.

Bearing in mind your good character ... I am not imposing any custodial sentence.