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The Rolls Building is a judicial court complex on Fetter Lane in the City of London that is used by the High Court of Justice (one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales). It houses the commercial and property business of the Chancery Division (including bankruptcy), as well as the Admiralty Court , Commercial Court , and the Technology and ...
The building was extended to the designs of Sir Henry Tanner to create the West Green building completed in 1912. [2] The Queen's Building followed in 1968 and the Thomas More Courts were completed in January 1990. [2] The building was used as a "Nightingale Court" for criminal trials during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. [7]
The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in the City of Westminster. The High Court of Justice was established in 1875 by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.The Act merged eight existing English courts – the Court of Chancery, the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Exchequer, the High Court of Admiralty, the Court of Probate, the Court for Divorce and ...
The original site, between Rolls Buildings (a street) and Bream's Buildings (another street to the north) was called Rolls House from 1961 until its demolition in 2007. The new site, sometimes called 110 Fetter Lane rather than Rolls House, is the site of an 11-storey building containing 29 courtrooms and other judicial accommodation.
The formation of the Business and Property Courts of England & Wales within the High Court was announced in March 2017, [11] and launched in London in July 2017. [12] The courts are based in the Rolls Building, where there are 31 courts and three super courts able to handle the most complex and multi-party trials. There are regional High Court ...
In April 2011, the court moved its central location from its aged building in Fetter Lane to a purpose-built building on Fetter Lane, the Rolls Building, not far from the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The court shares the building with other divisional courts of the King's Bench and Chancery Divisions. As well as its London location, where ...
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.
[8]: 1 The case was scheduled to be heard over a number of trials at the Rolls Building in London. [ 4 ] The claimants were represented in court by a team from Henderson Chambers led by Patrick Green KC, instructed by Freeths, while the Post Office lead barristers included David Cavender KC and Anthony de Garr Robinson KC, both from One Essex ...