Structure of Courts and Tribunals System

United Kingdom Supreme Court

Court of Appeal

Civil Division

Criminal Division

High Court of England and Wales

King’s Bench Division

Chancery Division

Family Division

Administrative / Divisional Court

Planning Court

King’s Bench Civil List

The Business and Property Courts

King’s Bench Division

• Commercial Court
• Admiralty Court
• Technology and Construction Court

King’s Bench/ Chancery Division

• Financial List

Chancery Division

• Business List
• Insolvency and Companies List
• Competition List
• Intellectual Property List
• Revenue List
• Property, Trusts and Probate List

The Crown Court

The County Court

The Court of Protection

The Family Court

Magistrates’ courts

The Upper Tribunal

• Administrative Appeals Chamber
• Tax and Chancery Chamber
• Immigration and Asylum Chamber
• Lands Chamber

First Tier Tribunal

• War, Pension, and Armed Forces Chamber
• General Regulatory Chamber
• Social Entitlement Chamber
• Tax Chamber
• Health, Education and Social Care Chamber
• Immigration and Asylum Chamber
• Property Chamber

Employment Appeal Tribunal

Employment Tribunals (England and Wales)

Employment Tribunals (Scotland)

Coroners’ courts

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