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Civil way: 8 July 2020

07 July 2011 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7473 / Categories: Features , Civil way
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The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1465) kills off 23 county courts and sets three execution dates over the next month.

RIP

The Civil Courts (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1465) kills off 23 county courts and sets three execution dates over the next month. Goodbye to Cheltenham, Goole, Harlow, Hitchin, Huntingdon, Leigh, Lowestoft, Newbury, Penzance, Poole and Whitehaven on 4 July 2011; Ashford, Bishop Auckland, Consett, Epsom and Haywards Heath on 18 July 2011; Abedare, Northwich, Penrith, Pontypool, Runcorn and Southport on 1 August; and Salford on 8 August. West Cumbria county court is established in place of Whitehaven and took over all its patches on 4 July 2011. A direction on behalf of the Lord Chancellor (at www.justice.gov.uk/publications/bills-and-acts) lists which survivors take on which of the dead courts’ patches and is an essential reference for all jurisdictional work.

LAST GLANCE SALOON

It’s purple cum magenta. The cover of the just published 2011-2012 At a Glance published by the Family Law Bar Association at £50. As good as

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