JURISDICTION OF COUNTY AND HIGH COURT

Question 1

What are county and high courts?

Answer 1

Court of first instance

Question 2

What is the county courts jurisdiction?

Answer 2

Majority of civil cases including cases with the value up to £100000:
hear cases on;
Contract
Tort
Inheritance up to £30000
Bankruptcy

Question 3

Which of the 3 tracks do they hear cases from?

Answer 3

All three, small claim track, fast track and multi-track

Question 4

Where are high courts based in?

Answer 4

London, but judges do sit in other town and cities

Question 5

What are the 3 division of the high court?

Answer 5

Kings bench devision
Chancery devision
Family division

Question 6

What does the kings bench division hear?

Answer 6

• Contract and tort matters over 100000 or cases that are complex (multi track cases)
• personal injury, negligence, breach, defamation

Question 7

Courts under the kings bench decision?

Answer 7

• administrative court = judicial. Review
• Comercial court = business related disputes
• Admiralty court = maritime law
• Circuit comercial court = business related disputes that can’t be dealt by the comercial court chancery court
• tech and constructive court = e.g engineering

Question 8

What does the chancery division hear?

Answer 8

Business
Property/land disputes
Competitive law

Question 9

What are the courts included in the chancery division?

Answer 9

Intellectual property enterprise court
Patents court

Question 10

Wha is in the family division jurisdiction?

Answer 10

Family matters = e.g FAMILY LAW ACT 1996

Child welfare = CHILDREN ACT 1989

CHILD ABDUCTION AND CUSTODY ACT 1985 + COURT OF PROTECTION = making decisions for those who lack mental capacity to make them

Forced marriage + female genital mutilation