{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-53.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-53.2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/53.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "53.2",
  "heading": "Specialist list",
  "text": "(1) The Media and Communications List is a specialist list of the High Court.\n(2) One of the Judges of the King’s Bench Division shall be nominated by the President of the King’s Bench Division to be the Judge in Charge of the Media and Communications List.\n(3) A Media and Communications List Judge is a judge authorised by the President of the King’s Bench Division, in consultation with the President of the Business and Property Division, to hear claims in the Media and Communications List.\n(4) All proceedings in the Media and Communications List will be heard by a Media and Communications Judge, or by a Master of the King’s Bench Division, except that—\n(a) another judge of the King’s Bench Division or Business and Property Division may hear urgent applications if no Media and Communications Judge is available; and\n(b) unless the court otherwise orders, any application relating to enforcement of a Media and Communications List order or judgment for the payment of money will be dealt with by a Master of the King’s Bench Division or District Judge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 53 substituted (1.10.2019) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1118), rule 1(1), Sch. (with rule 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 53.2(2) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 27(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 53.2(2) inserted (6.4.2020) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/82), rules 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in rule 53.2(3) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 27(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 53.2(3) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(4), 12(a) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in rule 53.2(4) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 27(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in rule 53.2(4)(a) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 27(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 53.2(4)(a) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(4), 12(b) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in rule 53.2(4)(b) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 27(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/53.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}