Business and Property Division Courts and Lists
Admiralty Court
Deals with shipping and maritime disputes, such as: collision, salvage and carriage of cargo.
Commercial Court
The Commercial Court specialises in the determination of a wide range of significant commercial disputes, many of them international in nature. It also supports arbitrations based in England and Wales.
Technology and Construction Court
This specialist court deals principally with technology and construction disputes.
Business List
Find out more about the scope of the list which covers national and international business disputes.
Competition List
This list deals with claims brought under Article 101 and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and claims under Chapters I and II of Part 1 of the Competition Act 1998.
Financial List
The Financial List is a specialist cross-jurisdictional list set up to address the particular business needs of parties litigating on financial matters.
Insolvency and Companies List
This list deals with both corporate insolvency work such as applications initiating an insolvency procedure and company work including cross-border mergers, the disclosure of shareholder information, challenge to the decisions of management and shareholder disputes.
Intellectual Property List
The Intellectual Property List deals with cases concerning patents, registered designs, semiconductor topography rights, plant varieties and other intellectual property rights such as copyrights and registered trade marks.
Property, Trusts & Probate List
This list deals with cases of a diverse nature including, tenancies, execution of a trust and probate claims.
Revenue List
The Revenue List deals with matters involving major points of principle in which HMRC is a party.