{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-53.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-53.4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/53.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "53.4",
  "heading": "Proceedings in the Media and Communications List",
  "text": "(1) A media and communications claim that is issued in the High Court must be issued in the King’s Bench Division, Royal Courts of Justice, and marked in the top left corner “Media and Communications List”.\n(2) A media and communications claim that is issued in a District Registry of the High Court must be transferred either to the County Court or to the Royal Courts of Justice (as appropriate).",
  "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 53.4(1) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 27(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/53.4",
    "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."
}