Part I CONSTITUTION OF F3Senior Courts
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Amendments (Textual)
The High Court
6 The Patents, Admiralty and Commercial Courts.
1
There shall be—
a
as part of the Chancery Division, a Patents Court; and
b
as parts of the Queen’s Bench Division, an Admiralty Court and a Commercial Court.
2
The judges of the Patents Court, of the Admiralty Court and of the Commercial Court shall be such of the puisne judges of the High Court as the F1Lord Chief Justice may, after consulting the Lord Chancellor, from time to time nominate to be judges of the Patents Court, Admiralty Judges and Commercial Judges respectively.
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The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under subsection (2).
Words in Pt. 1 heading substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 26(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)