If the judge decides that the plaintiff is entitled to damages, he or she must decide the amount. Or the plaintiff sought an injunction – for example, to prohibit the defendant from making excessive noise in the upstairs apartment early in the morning, or a statement – an injunction setting the exact boundary between 2 properties on which the parties could never agree. It is up to the judge to decide, if necessary, the appropriate remedy and its precise conditions. District registry offices are the place to find documents on: Learn more about the different types of courts and their specific types of case handling Civil cases, e.g. public licenses, can also be handled by judges. More complex or large money cases are heard by the High Court; The vast majority of civil cases are heard by the County Court. The diocesan registry offices keep the registers of ecclesiastical courts. These usually refer to a specific ecclesiastical diocese and document the judicial activity of ecclesiastical and Christian institutions. For example: There are about 80 Crown courts in England and Wales, including the Central Criminal Court of the City of London, known as the Old Bailey. For more detailed advice on Central Criminal Court (City of London`s Crown Court) cases, see our guide to criminal cases: Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court). For tips on locating files from other types of criminal courts, see our presentation guide.
If you do not yet have a case number, contact HM Courts and Tribunal Service, which can give you a case number for some Crown Court cases (the National Archives has case indexes and therefore case numbers, only for the Central Criminal Court – the Old Bailey – and only up to 1980). District judges are full-time judges who handle the majority of cases before county courts. You will be appointed to a particular circuit and may sit on one of the registries of the County Court or District Court of the High Court of that circuit. The types of civil cases handled by the county court include: You can see which cases a court hears each day and check their progress on the court lists. The information contained in a file varies from file to file, but may include: Use this guide if you are researching court records in England and Wales and are interested in collections held in archives other than the National Archives. The National Archives hold many documents from central or “high” courts such as the Chancellery, the King`s Bench or the Supreme Court. He also kept county registers until 1971. For research guides specific to the National Archives of Court Records, see our Guidelines for Research on Offenders, Courts and Prisons category. Court reporters recorded the proceedings in stenography, known as computerized transcription notes. These are filed separately from the file and are not kept permanently. However, if the defendant appealed within five years of sentencing, the handwritten notes of the original computerized transcription notes were recreated for the appeal and can be found in the criminal appeal file (see our guide to criminal appeal cases). Before you begin research, remember that the National Archives only has samples of surviving Crown court records and that many Crown courts have not yet sent charge files to the National Archives.
Many documents are still in the custody of HM Courts and Tribunal Service. For information on these cases, please contact the Department of Justice. Contact information for the various Crown courts is available on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service website. Cases are dealt with here only a few weeks before the appeal hearing before the Court of Justice. Lists of cases in which leave to appeal is sought from the Court can be found in the monthly lists published on our Leave to Appeal page once such an appeal has been decided. You can also find diocesan documents in the local archives. Search an archive by city or region to find contact information for local archives. County court decisions may require payment or restitution of money or property.
Successful litigants may apply to the court to enforce the judgment through one of the following procedures, including injunctions and control orders (which allow bailiffs to take control of the property). Civil judges have the power to punish parties if, for example, they disobey the court, but generally civil cases do not involve punishment. To get an idea of what you might find in Crown court records, see section 3 above. In addition to the National Archives, which contain records of central or “superior” courts, the following repositories and institutions hold extensive collections of court records: The following table Current cases can be sorted in ascending or descending order by clicking on the following titles: Most district court centres have at least 1 district judge and 1 district judge assigned to them. But the number of judges will vary. Circuit judges usually hear cases worth more than £15,000 or of greater importance or complexity. You`ll also hear many cases worth over £5,000 but no more than £15,000. Unlike criminal cases, where the state prosecutes a person, civil cases arise in which a person or company believes that their rights have been violated. Black Sheep Ancestor – Use this website to search for criminals and convicts in historical court records.
Different Crown courts transfer documents at different speeds, so some of the following sets of records are less complete than others. Many Crown Courts have not yet sent indictments to the National Archives and their records remain in the custody of HM Courts and Tribunal Service. Judges also play an active role in the administration of civil cases once they have begun, helping to ensure that they are dealt with as quickly and efficiently as possible. Ancestry (£) – for online court records on taxes, wills, criminals and land. Search for records in two ways: Many archives regularly add new records to include in their collections – this process is called joining. Each year, the National Archives collects information on new acquisitions of 250 archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This is called the annual deposit accessions survey. Court documents from 1994 to today can be found on our deposit accessions pages. It handles in the first instance all important and high-quality civil (non-criminal) cases and, with a few exceptions, also has supervisory jurisdiction over all lower courts.
All district courts can deal with contractual and tortious cases (incorrect in civil law) as well as the collection of land claims. Some hearing centres may also deal with bankruptcy and insolvency matters, as well as wills and trusts cases (equity actions and disputed estate actions) where the value of the trust, fund or estate does not exceed £30,000, matters under the Equality Act 2010 and claims brought by all parties in a district court (e.g.