About us

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The Business and
Property Courts

We decide specialist business and other civil international dispute resolution and business cases in England and Wales, whether domestic or international.

We cover disputes that are dealt with by:

• The Commercial Court (e.g. shipping, sale of goods, insurance and reinsurance )
• The Business List
• The Admiralty Court
• The Circuit Commercial Court (previously the Mercantile Court)
• The Technology and Construction Court
• The Financial List(e.g. banking and financial markets)
• The Insolvency List
• The Companies List
• The Competition List
• The Intellectual Property List (Including the Patents Court and Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court)
• The Property, Trusts and Probate List (cases in Chancery)
• The Revenue List

Who we are

We cover the work of the specialist courts within the Rolls Building in London and at the civil and family courts in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Cardiff (The Business and Property Court for Wales), Bristol, Liverpool and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

We bring together the work of the Chancery Division and specialist courts of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court.

Cases issued in the Business and Property Courts are issued through one of the a lists or courts indicated above.

Court information

• forms and guidance
• CE-File
• Civil Procedure Rules
• daily hearing lists: Rolls Building
• RCJ and Rolls Building daily court lists
• Guide to Business and Property Work at Central London