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Court and tribunal reference · England & Wales

What applies, where it applies, and what it says.

An operational reference for the people who run the courts of England and Wales. Guidance, court guides and practice notes indexed against the venues they apply at and the forms they require — cross-linked, dated, and quoted from the source rather than restated.

What changed

Court guides and bench books are reissued constantly and there is no official feed of what moved. This is that feed, driven off each document’s own modification date at the source.

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The same rule matters differently depending on which side of the court you sit.

How this site works

Every substantive statement here is a verbatim quotation carrying its source and retrieval date, or a link to the primary source that says it.

Nothing on this site restates the law or the procedure in its own words.