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Administration of Justice Act 1970

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3Commercial Court

(1)There shall be constituted, as part of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, a Commercial Court to take such causes and matters as may in accordance with rules of court be entered in the commercial list

(2)The judges of the Commercial Court shall be such of the puisne judges of the High Court as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time nominate to be Commercial Judges.

(3)Nothing in this section is to be taken as prejudicing provisions of the said Act of 1925 which enable the whole jurisdiction of the High Court to be exercised by any judge of that court.

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