The Court of Peculiars is one of the ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England. The court sits with a Dean, who is also the Dean of the Arches. The Registrars are the Joint Provincial Registrars. The Court of Peculiars deals with all legal matters from peculiar parishes in the province. Until 1545, ecclesiastical judges were required to have a degree in canon law; thereafter, they only needed a doctorate in civil law. Binding precedent was only introduced into the ecclesiastical courts in the nineteenth century. List of deans of the court Sir Philip Wilbraham-Baker, 1955 Sir Henry Willink, 19551970 Walter Wigglesworth, 19711972 Sir Harold Kent, 19721976 Kenneth Elphinstone, 19771980 Sir John Owen, 19802000 Sheila Cameron, 20002009 Charles George, 2009 Notes References Canon law of the Church of England Ecclesiastical courts