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Until 1 January 1937, when the County Court Districts (Name of Court) Order 1936 came into force, [12] the full title of each court was The County Court of (county) holden at (location/locations), using the historic county names for England and for Wales. Thereafter, each court was renamed as (location/s) County Court. For brevity, the latter ...
The modern County Court in England and Wales was created by the County Courts Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 95), which created a jurisdiction for small civil claims intended to be more coherent, and less cumbersome and costly, than the universal jurisdiction of the High Court or the remnants of local courts administering justice in civil matters.
When the county court system was created as a result of the County Courts Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 95), there were 491 county courts in England and Wales. Since the Crime and Courts Act 2013 came into force, there has been one County Court in England and Wales, sitting simultaneously in many different locations.
Today the court sits in many County Court centres, currently corresponding to the old individual county courts. County Court matters can be lodged at a court in person, by post or via the Internet in some cases through the County Court Bulk Centre. Cases are normally heard at the court having jurisdiction over the area where the claimant lives.
The centre was designed by Associated Architects of Birmingham in the Modernist style, built in red brick with stone drssings at a cost of £10.4 million, [6] and was completed in 1991. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The design involved a two-storey section on the left which stretched along Earl Street and a three-storey entrance block on the right which ...
The County Court Business Centre (CCBC) is a centre of the County Court of England and Wales created to deal with claims by the use of various electronic media. Unlike other County Court centres the CCBC does not physically hear cases. If any case might require a hearing it is transferred to another centre.
Jessner noted that an average of 1,571 county court hearings have been conducted without a verbatim record each day this year — which she called "an emergency and a crisis" that cannot be ...
Until the late 1980s, the main venue for criminal court hearings in Coventry was the aging County Hall in Cuckoo Street. [1] However, as the number of court cases in Coventry grew, it became necessary to commission a courthouse with dedicated facilities for both Crown Court hearings, which require courtrooms suitable for trial by jury, and for County Court hearings. [2]