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The Mayor's and City of London Court is a sitting of the County Court in the
The Mayor's and City of London Court is a sitting of the County Court in the City of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London f ...
. It is located at Guildhall Buildings, Basinghall Street
Bassishaw is a ward in the City of London. Small, it is bounded by wards: Coleman Street, east; Cheap, south; Cripplegate, north; Aldersgate, west.
It first consisted of Basinghall Street with the courts and short side streets off it,
.
History
The current court is the successor to courts pre-dating the County Courts Act 1846, which introduced the modern system of county courts. The 1846 Act deliberately did not extend to the City of London, where the prior constituted courts continued to exercise jurisdiction: ThePalace Court
The Marshalsea Court (or Court of the Marshalsea, also known as the Court of the Verge or the Court of the Marshal and Steward) was a court associated with the Royal Household in England. Associated with, but distinct from, the Marshalsea Court ...
also exercised jurisdiction within the City in certain cases before its abolition in 1849.
The two courts were combined with effect from 1 January 1921 by the Mayor's and City of London Court Act 1920. High Court procedure was declared to apply to matters formerly dealt with by the Mayor's Court, while county court procedure applied to matters falling under the City of London Court.
1971 reform
Under s. 42 of the Courts Act 1971, the old Mayor's and City of London Court was abolished, the City of London was made a county court district, and the new county court for the city of London was given the name of its predecessor. It was the only county court not to contain "county" in its title. The individual county courts have since been replaced by a single County Court for England and Wales.See also
*List of County Court venues in England and Wales
The County Court of England and Wales dates back to the County Courts Act 1846, which received royal assent on 28 August 1846 and was brought into force on 15 March 1847.
England and Wales (with the exception of the City of London, which w ...
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