Practice Note: The Chancery Guide

Business and Property CourtsChancellor of the High CourtChancery DivisionCivilSir Julian FlauxGuidesPractice Guidance

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  1. The new Chancery Guide was published on 29 July 2022. This Practice Note accompanies the update published in September 2025.
  2. The Chancery Guide is available online (PDF) with hyperlinks on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website. It was substantially rewritten in 2022 so merits careful reading by judges and practitioners alike.
  3. The Chancery Guide seeks so far as possible to bring the practice in the Chancery Division into line with the practice in the other Business and Property Courts. It also applies in the District Registries out of London, save where local guidance is necessary.
  4. Apart from the Practice Notes, Guidance and Directions listed in Appendix W of the Chancery Guide, all other Chancery Division Practice Notes, Guidance and Directions pre-dating July 2022 are revoked, on the basis that so far as relevant they are otherwise incorporated into the Chancery Guide.
  5. Further Practice Notes, Guidance and Directions may be issued from time to time by the Chancellor, Supervising Judges, Chief ICC Judge or Chief Chancery Master and will take effect from the date they are issued (and be incorporated into Appendix W when the Chancery Guide is next updated unless superseded).
  6. Nothing in this Practice Note or the Chancery Guide substitutes or overrides the CPR including relevant Practice Directions.

Sir Julian Flaux
Chancellor of the High Court

September 2025

Reissued October 2022, June 2023, July 2024 and September 2025

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