| P | Miscellaneous |
| P1 |
Out of hours emergency arrangements |
| P1.1 |
| (a) |
When the Listing Office is closed, solicitors or counsel's clerks
should in an emergency contact the Clerk to the Queen's Bench
Judge in Chambers by telephone through the security desk at the
Royal Courts of Justice: PD 58 Paragraph 2.2.
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| (b) |
The telephone number of the security desk is included in the list of
addresses and contact details at the end of the Guide.
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| P1.2 |
When the Listing Office is closed an urgent hearing will initially be dealt
with by the Queen's Bench Judge in Chambers who may dispose of the
application himself or make orders allowing the matter to come before a
Commercial Judge at the first available opportunity.
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| P2 |
Index of decisions of the Commercial and Admiralty Courts |
| P2.1 |
An Index has been prepared on a subject-matter basis of unreported
Commercial Court and Admiralty Court judgments from 1995 onwards.
The Index is updated regularly.
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| P2.2 |
The Index is provided as a service to litigants and to the legal profession,
and to assist the Commercial Court and the Admiralty Court to maintain
reasonable consistency of approach in those areas of law and procedure
most frequently before them.
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| P2.3 |
The index of Judgments of Commercial Court and Admiralty Court of
England and Wales is available to all Internet users and can be found at:
www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/admiralcomm/index.htm
via
the link to "Searchable index of court cases" (at bottom of the box on
right hand side of Commercial Court and Admiralty Court). The Index is
also available at the BAILII website and can be found at
www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/summaries.cgi?index=comm
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| P2.4 |
The judgments referred to in the Index are kept in the Registry. They
may be consulted there.
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| P2.5 |
Copies of the judgments referred to in the Index may be obtained from
the Registry (or where there is difficulty, from the clerk to the judge)
unless the judgment is in the form of a transcript, in which case copies
should be obtained from the shorthand writers or other transcript agency.
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