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    Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The Court of Appeal...
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    Justice of Appeal or Lady Justice of Appeal is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the court that hears appeals from the High Court of Justice...
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  • The Courts of England and Wales, supported administratively by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, are the civil and criminal courts responsible...
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  • England and Wales, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and Crown Court. Haxey's case (1397) Rot. Parl. (iii) 434 Case of the Thorns (1466) YB 6 Ed 4...
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    The ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales are the Lord Justices of Appeal and Lady Justices of Appeal. These judges serve with the...
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    way offences and appeals of the decisions of magistrates' courts. It is one of three Senior Courts of England and Wales. The Crown Court sits in around...
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  • Territory Court of Appeal, name used by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory exercising its appeal jurisdiction New South Wales Court of Appeal...
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    president of the courts of England and Wales. Until 2005 the lord chief justice was the second-most senior judge of the English and Welsh courts, surpassed...
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    Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Cornish & Clarke (1989) p.619 Cornish & Clarke (1989) p.620 Davies (1949) Criminal Appeal Act 1966...
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    A justice of the High Court, commonly known as a High Court judge, is a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, and represents the third-highest...
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    of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls, is the President of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal of...
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    importance, in line with the order of the courts in which they sit, so that judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales are given more weight than district...
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    Birmingham Six (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal on 14 March 1991. The six men were later awarded...
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    In England and Wales, a magistrates' court is a lower court which hears matters relating to summary offences and some triable either-way matters. Some...
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  • as head of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Head of Civil Justice. In 1988 he was elevated to the House of Lords with...
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    An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is...
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  • Guinness share-trading fraud (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    Court of Appeal that suggested he was suffering from serious illness. A diagnosis of pre-senile Alzheimer's disease was accepted by the Appeal Court....
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    judges in England and Wales who sit in the Crown Court, the Family Court, the County Court and some specialized sub-divisions of the High Court of Justice...
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    Court of Appeal (England and Wales) on the question of whether puberty blockers could be prescribed to under-16s with gender dysphoria. The Court of Appeal...
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  • County Court is a national civil court for England and Wales with unlimited financial jurisdiction. The County Court sits in various County Court buildings...
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    R v Adams (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    of guilt or innocence. Adams was convicted once again and again an appeal was made to the Court of Appeal. The appeal was unsuccessful but the Appeal...
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  • Bridgewater Four (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    later. An appeal in March 1989 was rejected, but on 21 February 1997, the convictions of the men were overturned after the Court of Appeal ruled that...
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    Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court,...
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    ER 855, Court of Appeal (England and Wales). Oscar Chess Ltd v Williams [1956] EWCA 5, [1957] 1 WLR 370, Court of Appeal (England and Wales). Birch v...
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  • M25 Three (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    view the Court of Appeal ought at the same time have the opportunity to consider whether the case can still be sustained against Messrs Rowe and Davis."...
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    famous Court of Appeal of England and Wales case in the torts of negligence and nuisance. The court considered whether the defendant - the chairman of a local...
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    Merritt v Merritt (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    The Court of Appeal held that nature of the dealings, and the fact that the Merritts were separated when they signed their contract, allowed the court to...
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    customer so as to bar the claim of the customer against the bank. The Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal, which had held that on the...
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    Balfour v Balfour (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    obligation to support his wife. The Court of Appeal unanimously held that there was no enforceable agreement, although the depth of their reasoning differed. Warrington...
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    Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co (category Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases)
    sued too, but the Court of Appeal held they were honest and exonerated by provisions in the company’s articles. Romer J held that some of the directors did...
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