High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice (ugs. High Court and the High Court of England and Wales, EWHC, the High Court ) is next to the Crown Court ( Criminal Court ) and the Court of Appeal ( Court of Appeal) of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
He treated the first instance all the main and important cases and has also supervised all lower ranked courts (Court) and many arbitral tribunals ( tribunal ). Appeals against judgments of the High Court in civil proceedings take place in the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) and then to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
The High Court is located in the building of the Royal Courts of Justice on The beach in Central London. In addition, district secretariats are located throughout England and Wales. Almost all the shops on the High Court can be entered and listened to these secretariats. Led is the High Court by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, so the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. All male judges are ennobled by the appointment as a Knight Bachelor; the judges are appointed Dames Commander of the British Empire.
The High Court is divided into three sections, the Queen's Bench Division ( Divisional Court also, Chamber of Civil Cases ), the. Chancery Division ( Chamber for Economic Affairs ), and the Family Division ( Chamber of Family Law ) In addition, give the Senior Courts Costs Office, which is responsible for the establishment of court costs.
Queen's Bench Division
The Queen's Bench Division - or King's Bench Division when the reigning monarch is a king - has two roles: It will be a wide range of cases on contract law, personal injury and general negligence belongs. It also has a special responsibility as a court with supervision. The President of the Queen's Bench Division is the Lord Chief Justice, Igor Judge currently, Baron Judge.
The judges of the Queen's Bench Division practice together with the Circuit Judges ( District Court Judge ) in a criminal case law to sit in the Crown Court. In addition, the Divisional Court hears appeals of the Department on revisions of magistrates 'courts and Crown Courts, which already appeals from Magistrates' Courts have heard. All claims for judicial review of administrative decisions or decisions deeper asked courts are heard by a Queen's Bench Judge or a Divisional Court. Appeals from the High Court in civil matters are the Court of Appeal, the Department of civil justice in criminal matters only when the United Kingdom Supreme Court ( Supreme Court of the United Kingdom).
Subdivisions of the Queen's Bench Division include the Commercial Court ( Commercial Court ), Admiralty Court ( court of admiralty, for disputes) and Administrative Court ( Administrative Court ), where claims for judicial review to be heard.
Chancery Division
The Chancery Division deals with commercial law, antitrust law, wills and property law in terms of fairness. In addition, a special department dealing with the Right property and company law rights. The Chairman of the Chancery Division of the Vice-Chancellor.
Family Division
The Family Division deals with matters such as divorce, children, inheritance, and medical treatments. Its decisions can affect life and death and are considered under certain circumstances as controversial. For example, there was a hospital allowed to separate Siamese twins without consent of the parents; it has also been allowed a woman to let her off life-support machines, while it was illegal for a husband, his wife severely disabled with their permission to administer a lethal injection. The High Court Family Division may exercise jurisdiction over all cases in which it comes to the welfare and interests of children, and exercises an exclusive jurisdiction in matters of guardianship. Leading the Family Division by the President of the Family Division. Its highest division is the Principal Registry of the Family Division, which has its registered office at First Avenue House, Holborn, London.
The Family Division is comparatively modern, because it arises from the union of the Admiralty Court and the inheritance of dishes at the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, and consequently the inheritance, divorce law and admiralty division of the High Courts has arisen; colloquially as " wills, wrecks and wives " also referred to as Wills, Wrecks and Wives.
The supervisory role of the High Court and the District Judge
History is in England, the monarch the source of all Justice. All judges practice law from his name, which is why all judges have the royal arms behind him. The prosecution by the State is generally carried out on behalf of the monarch. Historically, it was the local Lords permitted to hold in manorial courts and in other ways court. It was inevitable that the jurisdiction exercised was very patchy and complaints were made directly to the king. Travelers representative of the king, whose main purpose was to collect taxes, negotiated on behalf of the king to unify the administration of justice. The tradition of traveling judges in remote areas of the country, the so-called circuits " round trips " still exists today, where they discuss cases in the district secretariats of the High Court.
Even the superintendence of the Queen's Bench on the subscript courts and the authorities in the name of the monarch. In general, anyone may challenge the decision of a lower court or a public authority and provided a legal review by the Queen 's Bench Division demand, unless the law other remedies are provided. There is this, a special procedure in the Administrative Court of the Queen's Bench Division: First, a single judge decides on the approval of action to weed out inappropriate and hopeless cases. After approval of the application, there is a full legal hearing. This is not a matter for a jury. Remedies first go to the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division) and then to the United Kingdom Supreme Court in criminal cases directly to the United Kingdom Supreme Court.