Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 819
Senior Courts Of England And Wales
The Civil Courts Order 2014
Made
27th March 2014
Laid before Parliament
31st March 2014
Coming into force
22nd April 2014
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 99(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981( 1 ), having consulted the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with that section, makes the following Order:
Commencement, citation and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts Order 2014 and shall come into force on 22nd April 2014.
(2) In this Order “Chancery district registry” means the Chancery district registries sitting at Birmingham, Bristol, Caernarfon, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Mold, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Preston.
District Registries of the High Court
2. —(1) There shall be a district registry at each of the places specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order.
(2) The name of every place so specified shall be the name of the district registry at that place, except that the name of the district registry at Brecon shall be the Brecknock District Registry, the name of the district registry at Chatham shall be the Medway District Registry, the name of the district registry at Margate shall be the Thanet District Registry and the name of the district registry at Torquay shall be the Torquay and Newton Abbot District Registry.
(3) A district registry which is also a Chancery district registry is denoted by the words “(Chancery)” following the name of the place at which the district registry is situated.
(4) The district of each district registry shall be the area comprising the areas served by the hearing centres of the County Court named in the second column of the Schedule to this Order opposite the name of the place at which the district registry is situated.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Shailesh Vara
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
27th March 2014
Article 2
SCHEDULE
| First column | Second column |
|---|---|
Name of place | Districts defined by reference to areas served by hearing centres of the County Court |
| Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth |
| Barnsley | Barnsley |
| Barnstaple | Barnstaple |
| Barrow-in-Furness | Barrow-in-Furness |
| Basingstoke | Basingstoke |
| Bath | Bath Chippenham and Trowbridge |
| Bedford | Bedford |
| Birkenhead | Birkenhead |
| Birmingham (Chancery) | Birmingham |
| Blackburn | Blackburn |
| Blackpool | Blackpool |
| Blackwood | Blackwood |
| Bolton | Bolton |
| Boston | Boston |
| Bournemouth | Bournemouth and Poole |
| Bradford | Bradford |
| Brecon | Brecknock |
| Bridgend | Bridgend Neath and Port Talbot |
| Brighton | Brighton Lewes |
| Bristol (Chancery) | Bristol Weston-super-Mare |
| Burnley | Accrington Burnley |
| Bury | Bury |
| Bury St. Edmonds | Bury St. Edmunds |
| Caernarfon (Chancery) | Caernarfon Conwy and Colwyn Porthmadog |
| Cambridge | Cambridge |
| Canterbury | Canterbury |
| Cardiff (Chancery) | Cardiff |
| Carlisle | Carlisle |
| Carmarthen | Carmarthen Llanelli |
| Chatham | Medway Dartford |
| Chelmsford | Chelmsford Hertford |
| Chester | Chester |
| Chesterfield | Chesterfield |
| Chichester | Chichester |
| Colchester | Colchester and Clacton |
| Coventry | Banbury Coventry Nuneaton Warwick |
| Crewe | Crewe |
| Croydon | Bromley Croydon |
| Darlington | Darlington |
| Derby | Buxton Derby |
| Doncaster | Doncaster Rotherham |
| Dudley | Dudley |
| Durham | Durham |
| Eastbourne | Eastbourne |
| Exeter | Exeter |
| Gloucester | Gloucester and Cheltenham |
| Great Grimsby | Great Grimsby |
| Guildford | Aldershot and Farnham Guildford Reigate |
| Halifax | Halifax |
| Harrogate | Harrogate |
| Hartlepool | Hartlepool |
| Hastings | Hastings |
| Haverfordwest | Haverfordwest |
| Hereford | Hereford |
| Huddersfield | Huddersfield |
| Ipswich | Ipswich |
| Kendal | Kendal |
| King’s Lynn | King’s Lynn |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | Kingston-upon-Hull |
| Lancaster | Lancaster |
| Leeds (Chancery) | Leeds |
| Leicester | Leicester Loughborough |
| Lincoln | Lincoln |
| Liverpool (Chancery) | Liverpool |
| Llangefni | Llangefni |
| Luton | Luton |
| Macclesfield | Macclesfield |
| Maidstone | Maidstone |
| Manchester (Chancery) | Altrincham Manchester |
| Mansfield | Mansfield |
| Margate | Thanet |
| Merthyr Tydfil | Merthyr Tydfil |
| Middlesbrough | Middlesbrough |
| Milton Keynes | Aylesbury Milton Keynes |
| Mold (Chancery) | Mold |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Chancery) | Morpeth and Berwick Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Newport (Gwent) | Newport (Gwent) |
| Newport (Isle of Wight) | Newport (Isle of Wight) |
| Northampton | Kettering Northampton |
| Norwich | Norwich |
| Nottingham | Nottingham |
| Oldham | Oldham Tameside |
| Oxford | Oxford |
| Peterborough | Peterborough |
| Plymouth | Plymouth |
| Pontypridd | Pontypridd |
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth |
| Preston (Chancery) | Preston |
| Reading | Reading Slough |
| Rhyl | Rhyl |
| Romford | Basildon Romford |
| St Helens | St Helens |
| Salisbury | Salisbury |
| Scarborough | Scarborough |
| Scunthorpe | Scunthorpe |
| Sheffield | Sheffield |
| Skipton | Skipton |
| Southampton | Southampton |
| Southend-on-Sea | Southend-on-Sea |
| South Shields | North Shields South Shields |
| Stafford | Stafford |
| Stockport | Stockport |
| Stock-on-Trent | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Sunderland | Gateshead Sunderland |
| Swansea | Swansea |
| Swindon | Swindon |
| Taunton | Taunton |
| Telford | Telford |
| Torquay | Torquay and Newton Abbot |
| Truro | Bodmin Truro |
| Tunbridge Wells | Tunbridge Wells |
| Wakefield | Wakefield |
| Walsall | Walsall |
| Warrington | Warrington |
| Welshpool | Welshpool and Newtown |
| Weymouth | Weymouth |
| Wigan | Wigan |
| Winchester | Winchester |
| Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton |
| Worcester | Worcester |
| Workington | West Cumbria |
| Worthing | Horsham Worthing |
| Wrexham | Wrexham |
| Yeovil | Yeovil |
| York | York |
1981 c.54 . Section 99 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4) , section 15(1) and Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 114 and 143(1), (2) and (3).