High Court (Chancery Division)

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.

Documents on Find Case Law

We currently hold 8211 documents from the High Court (Chancery Division), from 2003 to 2025.

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Finding older documents

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