An Act to consolidate with amendments the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 and other enactments relating to the Supreme Court of England and Wales and the administration of justice therein; to repeal certain obsolete or unnecessary enactments so relating; to amend Part VIII of the Mental Health Act 1959, the Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1968, the Arbitration Act 1979 and the law relating to county courts; and for connected purposes.
Citation
1981 c. 54
Dates
Royal assent
28 July 1981
Commencement
1 January 1982
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes
Crown Debts Act 1541
Transfer of Stock Act 1800
Court Funds Act 1829
Court of Probate Act 1857
Chancery Amendment Act 1858
Court of Probate Act 1858
Admiralty Court Act 1861
Attorneys' and Solicitors' Act 1870
County Courts Act 1924
Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925
Administration of Justice Act 1928
Administration of Justice Act 1932
Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1935
Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1938
Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1938
Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1944
Supreme Court Officers (Pensions) Act 1954
Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1959
Administration of Justice (Judges and Pensions) Act 1960
Criminal Appeal Act 1964
Criminal Appeal Act 1966
Amended by
Courts and Legal Services Act 1990
Constitutional Reform Act 2005
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Senior Courts Act 1981 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
The Senior Courts Act 1981 (c. 54), originally named the Supreme Court Act 1981, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Act prescribes the structure and jurisdictions of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (previously known as the "Superior Courts"). These Senior Courts comprise: the Court of Appeal, High Court of Justice, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and the Crown Court.
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the SeniorCourtsAct1981, but the essential structure described in the act is still in place. The first part of the act concerns the new Crown Court. It...
Council and entitling them to the style The Right Honourable. The SeniorCourtsAct1981 limited in principle the total number of Lord Justices of Appeal...
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common law instrument, it has been codified under s.21(3) of the SeniorCourtsAct1981 along with s.21(2) and s.21(4), its statutory counterparts. Maritime...
Crown Court is a superior court according to the SeniorCourtsAct1981, and Crown Courts have the power to punish contempt. The Divisional Court as part...
directions issued under section 75(1) of the SeniorCourtsAct1981, an indictment must be tried by a High Court judge, a circuit judge or a recorder (which...
Category:High Court judges (England and Wales) The SeniorCourtsAct1981 specifies 80, but that has been amended (without changing the act's text) by The...
became responsible to the latter for administering the division. The SeniorCourtsAct1981 made the position one appointed by the Queen (like the President...
section 49(1) of the SeniorCourtsAct1981, the law follows equity instead: Subject to the provisions of this or any other Act, every court exercising jurisdiction...
approaching the court without permission. Section 42 of the SeniorCourtsAct1981 provides the High Court with the power to make an order restricting the ability...
a so-called Admiralty Court which was effectively the King's Bench sitting to hear nautical cases. The SeniorCourtsAct1981 then clarified the admiralty...
of Schedule 4 to, the SeniorCourtsAct1981 and sections 18(2) and 26(2) of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, is that the expression...
the Senior CourtsAct1981. The Short Titles Act 1962 The Short Titles Acts 1896 to 2007 is the collective title of the Short Titles Act 1896, the Short...
(Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970. Section 69 of the SeniorCourtsAct1981, which replaced section 6 of the 1933 Act in respect of High Court trials, provides...
coming-into-force of the SeniorCourtsAct1981), which was created in the 1870s under the Judicature Acts, and the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern...
States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (in case citations, 11th Cir.) is a federal appellate court over the following U.S. district courts: Middle...
of interest). Human Rights Act 1998 ss 3-6 SeniorCourtsAct1981 s 31(1) In Germany, see the Administrative Procedure Act 1976, Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz...
the SeniorCourts of England and Wales. Its name is abbreviated as EWHC (England and Wales High Court) for legal citation purposes. The High Court deals...
district courts in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. In 1981, the district courts for those states were transferred to the newly created U.S. Court of Appeals...