The Commercial Court was set up in 1895 following demands from the City of London and the business community for a tribunal or court manned by judges with knowledge and experience of commercial disputes which could determine such disputes expeditiously and economically, thereby avoiding tediously long and expensive trials with verdicts given by judges or juries unfamiliar with business practices. Many of greatest common lawyers of the last one hundred and twenty years have sat as judges of the Commercial Court: from Lord Justice Scrutton and Lords Atkin and Wright in the early decades of the last century, to Lord Devlin and Lord Diplock in the 1950s and in the more recent past, Lord Goff and Lord Bingham.