# The Civil Courts Order 2014 S.I. 2014/819 · made 27 March 2014 · revised to 1 October 2026 This Order replaces the Civil Courts Order 1983 (SI 1983/713) (“the 1983 Order”). It specifies the locations and names of the district registries of the High Court in England and Wales. Made under: Senior Courts Act 1981 (Section 99) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-order-2014/pdf/uksi_20140819_en.pdf; UK Explanatory Memorandum https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-order-2014/pdf/uksiem_20140819_en.pdf ## Introductory text Senior Courts Of England And Wales Made 27th March 2014 Laid before Parliament 31st March 2014 Coming into force 22nd April 2014 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 99(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, having consulted the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with that section, makes the following Order: ## 1 Commencement, citation and interpretation (1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Courts Order 2014 and shall come into force on 22nd April 2014. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 2 District Registries of the High Court (1) There shall be a district registry at each of the places specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order. (2) The name of every place so specified shall be the name of the district registry at that place, except that ... the name of the district registry at Chatham shall be the Medway District Registry, the name of the district registry at Margate shall be the Thanet District Registry and the name of the district registry at Torquay shall be the Torquay and Newton Abbot District Registry. (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) The district of each district registry shall be the area comprising the areas served by the hearing centres of the County Court named in the second column of the Schedule to this Order opposite the name of the place at which the district registry is situated. ## Signature Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor Shailesh Vara Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Ministry of Justice 27th March 2014 ## First column Second column Name of place Districts defined by reference to areas served by hearing centres of the County Court Aberystwyth Aberystwyth Barnsley Barnsley Barnstaple Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Basingstoke Bath Bath ... Bedford Bedford Birkenhead Birkenhead Birmingham ... Birmingham Blackburn Blackburn Blackpool Blackpool Blackwood Blackwood . . . . . . Boston Boston Bournemouth Bournemouth and Poole Bradford Bradford . . . . . . . . . ... Neath and Port Talbot Brighton Brighton Lewes Bristol ... Bristol Weston-super-Mare Burnley ... Burnley . . . . . . Bury St. Edmunds Bury St. Edmunds Caernarfon ... Caernarfon ... Porthmadog Cambridge Cambridge Canterbury Canterbury Cardiff ... Cardiff Carlisle Carlisle Carmarthen Carmarthen Llanelli Chatham Medway Dartford Chelmsford Chelmsford Hertford Chester Chester Chesterfield Chesterfield . . . . . . . . . . . . Coventry ... Coventry Nuneaton Warwick Crewe Crewe Croydon Bromley Croydon Darlington Darlington Derby ... Derby Doncaster Doncaster Rotherham Dudley Dudley Durham Durham Eastbourne Eastbourne Exeter Exeter Gloucester Gloucester and Cheltenham Great Grimsby Great Grimsby Guildford Aldershot and Farnham Guildford ... . . . . . . Harrogate Harrogate . . . . . . Hastings Hastings Haverfordwest Haverfordwest Hereford Hereford Huddersfield Huddersfield Ipswich Ipswich . . . . . . . . . . . . Kingston-upon-Hull Kingston-upon-Hull Lancaster Lancaster Leeds ... Leeds Leicester Leicester Loughborough Lincoln Lincoln Liverpool ... Liverpool . . . . . . Luton Luton . . . . . . Maidstone Maidstone Manchester ... ... Manchester Mansfield Mansfield Margate Thanet Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Aylesbury Milton Keynes Mold ... Mold Newcastle-upon-Tyne ... ... Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newport (Gwent) Newport (Gwent) Newport (Isle of Wight) Newport (Isle of Wight) Northampton ... Northampton Norwich Norwich Nottingham Nottingham . . . ... ... Oxford Oxford Peterborough Peterborough Plymouth Plymouth Pontypridd Pontypridd Portsmouth Portsmouth Port Talbot Port Talbot Prestatyn Prestatyn Preston ... Preston Reading Reading Slough . . . . . . Romford Basildon Romford St Helens St Helens Salisbury Salisbury Scarborough Scarborough . . . . . . Sheffield Sheffield Skipton Skipton Southampton Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southend-on-Sea South Shields North Shields South Shields Stafford Stafford Stockport Stockport Stock-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Gateshead Sunderland Swansea Swansea Swindon Swindon Taunton Taunton Telford Telford Torquay Torquay and Newton Abbot Truro Bodmin Truro . . . . . . Wakefield Wakefield Walsall Walsall . . . . . . Welshpool Welshpool and Newtown Weymouth Weymouth Wigan Wigan Winchester Winchester Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Worcester Worcester Workington West Cumbria Worthing Horsham Worthing Wrexham Wrexham Yeovil Yeovil York York ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order replaces the Civil Courts Order 1983 (SI 1983/713) (“the 1983 Order”). It specifies the locations and names of the district registries of the High Court in England and Wales. Previously, the district of each district registry was defined by reference to the area comprising the districts of particular county courts, which were specified in the 1983 Order. However, following the coming into force of section 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c.22), which amends the County Courts Act 1984 (c.28) to establish a single County Court for England and Wales, the district served by each district registry is now defined by reference to the areas served by the particular hearing centres of the County Court specified in this Order. The number and locations of the district registries have not been changed. Those County Court hearing centres which now define the district of each district registry correspond to the county courts which previously defined them. The 1983 Order also specified those county courts which had jurisdiction in respect of proceedings under the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c.42), the Insolvency Act 1986 (c.45), the Race Relations Act 1976 (c.74) the Companies Act 2006 (c.46) and the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 (c.12). However, following the implementation of both the single County Court and the family court, it is no longer necessary, or possible, to confer jurisdiction in this way. Accordingly, similar provision is not made in this Order. The 1983 Order and those subsequent orders which amended it are repealed by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 (SI 2014/820) (“The 2014 Order”). This is because the 2013 Act will repeal some of the relevant order making powers in primary legislation, under which the 1983 Order was made, on the same date that the 1983 Order is revoked. On that basis, it is not possible to use those powers to revoke, in their entirety, the 1983 Order or the amending orders. The Insolvency (Commencement of Proceedings) and Insolvency Rules 1986 (Amendment) Rules 2014 (SI 2014/817) now specify those County Court hearing centres where proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 must be commenced and, for the time being, the 2014 Order provides that proceedings under the Race Relations Act 1976 (which although repealed, is subject to a number of savings) will continue to be heard in those hearing centres which correspond to the county courts previously designated for that purpose. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/819 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-courts-order-2014 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.