High court and county court
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- Created on: 03-10-13 19:32
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- English court structure
- County court
- There are around 230 county courts
- County court can try nearly all civil cases
- All contract and tort claims
- All cases for the recovery of land
- Disputes over partnerships, trusts and inheritance up to a value of £30,000
- Some county courts may have the jurisdiction to hear divorce cases, bankruptcy cases, low-level claims in admiralty and matters under the race relations act 1976
- Can try small claims, fast track and multi-track cases
- Workload is much more than the high court
- Cases will nearly always be heard in open court and members of the public are entitled to attend
- The winner of a case may claim costs, including the cost of legal representation
- County court is more expensive than in the small claims track
- The winner of a case may claim costs, including the cost of legal representation
- High court
- Based in london
- Has the power to hear any civil case
- Has three divisions, each of which specialises in hearing certain types of cases
- Queens bench division
- Deals with contract and tort cases where the amount claimed is over £50,000
- Commercial court
- This is a special court which is part of the queens bench division
- Has specialist judges to deal with insurance, banking and other commercial matters
- In this court a simplified speedier procedure is used and the case may be decided on documentary evidence
- Has specialist judges to deal with insurance, banking and other commercial matters
- This is a special court which is part of the queens bench division
- Admiralty court
- Deals with shipping and deciding such matters as claims for damage caused by collision at sea
- Also decides disputes over salvage rights when a ship is abandoned at sea
- Deals with shipping and deciding such matters as claims for damage caused by collision at sea
- Chancery division
- The chancellor of the high court is the head of the division
- The main business of this division involves disputes concerned with such as -
- Insolvency for both companies and individuals
- The enforcement of mortgages
- Disputes relating to trust property
- Copyrights and patents
- Intellectual property matters and contested probate action
- There is a special companies court in the division which deals mainly with winding up comapnies
- Family division
- The head of this division is the president and 19 high court judges are assigned to this division
- Has the jurisdiction to hear wardship cases and all cases relating to children under the children act 1989
- Also deals with matters regarding the family, such as declarations of nullity of marriage and grants probate in non-contentious probate cases
- Cases heard by a single judges
- Juries are not used in this division
- Queens bench division
- Cases in the high court are expensive and can take a long time
- County court
- Disputes over partnerships, trusts and inheritance up to a value of £30,000
- Despite the large total number of claims issued, only a very small number of cases actually proceed to a trial
- County court
- There are around 230 county courts
- County court can try nearly all civil cases
- All contract and tort claims
- All cases for the recovery of land
- Some county courts may have the jurisdiction to hear divorce cases, bankruptcy cases, low-level claims in admiralty and matters under the race relations act 1976
- Can try small claims, fast track and multi-track cases
- Workload is much more than the high court
- Cases will nearly always be heard in open court and members of the public are entitled to attend
- The winner of a case may claim costs, including the cost of legal representation
- County court is more expensive than in the small claims track
- The winner of a case may claim costs, including the cost of legal representation
- County court
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