Section 62 Business of Patents, Admiralty and Commercial Courts.
The Patents Court shall take such proceedings relating to patents as are within the jurisdiction conferred on it by the M1Patents Act 1977, and such other proceedings relating to patents or other matters as may be prescribed.
The Admiralty Court shall take Admiralty business, that is to say causes and matters assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division and involving the exercise of the High Court’s Admiralty jurisdiction or its jurisdiction as a prize court.
The Commercial Court shall take such causes and matters as may in accordance with rules of court be entered in the commercial list.
Annotations
Marginal citations
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Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act: "The Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54) may be cited as the Senior Courts Act 1981" (1.10.2009) by virtue of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 1(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)
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Act: words 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)