Section 62: Business of Patents, Admiralty and Commercial Courts.

Senior Courts Act 1981 · 1981 c. 54View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE — : The High Court

The Patents Court shall take such proceedings relating to patents as are within the jurisdiction conferred on it by the Patents Act 1977, and such other proceedings relating to patents or other matters as may be prescribed.

The Admiralty Court shall take Admiralty business, that is to say causes and matters assigned to the Queen's Bench Division and involving the exercise of the High Court's Admiralty jurisdiction or its jurisdiction as a prize court.

The Commercial Court shall take such causes and matters as may in accordance with rules of court be entered in the commercial list.

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