County Courts
The County Courts’ jurisdiction is entirely civil, and is exercisable almost entirely at first instance. However, it does have a very limited appellate jurisdiction, arising especially (but not exclusively) in relation to a range of decisions made by local authorities concerning certain aspects of housing law.
In contrast to the civil jurisdiction of both the magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court, the County Courts’ jurisdiction includes contract, tort and divorce.
Circuit judges are also County Court judges, and therefore the details given above, in relation to style and mode of address, need not be repeated here.
More on the topic County Courts:
- The inhabitants of Rome lived with the reality of legal courts scattered throughout the public and private spaces of the city, and perhaps even came to resent, on occasion, the impact such courts made on traffic flow during the busy hours of the day.
- Binding precedent in relation to specific courts
- Courts of other magistrates
- Magistrates’ courts
- The distinction between types of courts
- Advocacy in present-day courts
- Courts of the praetors
- The hierarchy of the courts
- 4 The Jurisdictions of the Principal Courts
- As a large city and the heart of an empire, Rome was full of courts.