
Outside London, hearings are heard by circuit judges while the work of masters is handled by district judges. Hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice are heard by a High Court judge (or sometimes a deputy High Court judge or circuit judge) while other issues (eg case management, listing and most applications) are handled by a master. We are based at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and also at district registries across England and Wales. We are one of 3 divisions of the High Court of Justice, together with the Chancery Division and the Family Division. We contain a number of specialist courts with their own individual areas of work:

We maintain a list of group litigation orders (for managing cases where there are multiple claimants or defendants). ‘interpleader proceedings’ where a High Court Enforcement Officer is attempting to recover goods to settle a debt and a third party claims to be the owner of the goodsĪll of these cases can only be heard by the King’s Bench Division.
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The cases we most commonly handle are disputes relating to:
