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1) Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
| a) the second most senior court in the English legal system, with only the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom above it. The Master of the Rolls[8] presides over the Civil Division, with the Lord Chief Justice[9] as his counterpart in the Criminal Division.
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| 2) Court of Appeal of England and Wales
| b) hears most civil appeals from decisions of the High Court and many from County Courts, as well as from certain tribunals, including: the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. And the Employment Appeal Tribunal
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3) Civil Division (of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales)
| c) deals at first instance with all high value and high importance cases, and also has a supervisory jurisdiction over all subordinate courts and many (but not all) tribunals.
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| 4) Criminal Division(of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales)
| d) has jurisdiction over appeals by the defendant against conviction or sentence given at a trial on indictment in the Crown Court; on a point of law after an acquittal on indictment, against unduly lenient sentences etc.
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5) High Court of Justice
| e) court of last resort for several independent Commonwealth countries, the UK overseas territories, and the British Crown dependencies
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| 6) Crown Court of England and Wales
| f) deals with business law, trusts law, probate law, and land law in relation to issues of equity. It has specialist courts (the Patents Court and the Companies Court) which deal with intellectual property and company law matters respectively. All tax appeals are assigned to this Division.
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7) Queen's Bench Division of the High Court
| g) formerly known as a police court, is the lowest level of court in England and Wales.
This court is presided over by the Bench
consisting of two or more (most commonly three) justices of the peace or by a district judge, and dispenses summary justice[10].
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| 8) Chancery Division[11] of the High Court
| h) carries out four principal types of activity: appeals from decisions of magistrates; sentencing of defendants committed from magistrates’ courts, jury trials, and the sentencing of those who are convicted in the Crown Court, either after trial or on pleading guilty.
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| 9) Family Division of the High Court
| i) the main trial courts of the civil justice system in England and Wales.Deal with the majority of civil cases, as well as some family and bankruptcy hearings.
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| 10) Divisional Court of the High Court
| j) in relation to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, means a court sitting with at least two judges. Matters heard by such a court include all criminal cases in the High Court (including appeals from magistrates' courts)
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| 11) County courts
| k) deals with matters such as divorce, children, probate[12] and medical treatment
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| 12) Magistrate Courts
| l) claims for damages in respect of personal injury, damges of negligence, damages of libel and slander
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