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THE ADMIRALTY & COMMERCIAL COURTS GUIDE 2006

 

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.
(b)   The telephone number of the security desk is included in the list of addresses and contact details at the end of the Guide.
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.
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.
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.
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
P2.4   The judgments referred to in the Index are kept in the Registry. They may be consulted there.
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.