The Chancery Division is one of three divisions of the High Court. It handles a wide range of civil cases including business disputes, intellectual property and probate issues. It has various lists that deal with specialist issues such as the Business List, Insolvency and Companies List, Intellectual Property List, or Property, Trusts and Probate List. It contains the Intellectual Property Enterprise and Patents Courts.

This court began to regularly transfer judgments to The National Archives in 2022. The oldest judgment from this court included in Find Case Law is from 2003.

You can read more about it on the chancery division on the Judiciary website.

Coverage on Find Case Law

Date range — 2003 to 2026

What’s included — We currently hold 8,889 documents from 2003 to 2026.

You can read more about how to find older records in Civil court cases: Chancery Division since 1875

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Understanding High Court (Chancery Division) judgments

Chancery Division Judges are highly specialised in the wide range of work carried out by the Division and include High Court Judges, Chancery Masters and Insolvency and Companies Court Judges.

About High Court (Chancery Division)

The Chancery Division deals with commercial, business, intellectual property and competition disputes and cases concerning companies, partnerships, mortgages, insolvency, land and trusts. The President of the Chancery Division is the Chancellor of the High Court.