EUROPEAN COURT
Three to five Law Lords –
OF JUSTICE
majority decision suffices
COURT OF APPEAL – CIVIL DEVISION
28 Lord Justices of Appeal sit 3 together –
a majority decision suffices and decanting
opinions are expressed
HIGH COURT
85 puisne Judges allocated as fallow:
RESTRICTIVE EMPLOYMENT
PRECTICES COURT APPEAL TRIBUNATE
DEVISIONAL COURTS
Chancery Family Queen’s bench
13 16 54
INDUSTRIAL One judge sits for cases for first
TRIBUNAT instance
Two sit for appeal
COUNTY COURT
Circuit judge or district judge usually sit
alone but with a jury of 8 in fraud, libel
and slander cases
CROWN COURT
ARBITRATION / SMALL MAGISTRATES
CLAIMS COURT COURT
NO LEGAL AID