civil courts

• country jurisdiction - contract disputes, torts, matters under equality act
• high court - 3 divisions - kings bench - chancery and family
• kings bench - contract, tort, judicial review cases
• chancery - specialist civil cases, negligence, competition law
• family - family cases, children, custody
• pretrial - n1 form - d can plea - allocation questionnaire - allocated to track
• fast track - 10k - 25k
• small claims - up to 10k - up to 1k personal injury
• multi-track - 25k - 50k
• high court - over 50k
• first appeal is heard by a next level judge - district to circuit to high court
• second appeal could go to the court of appeal
• leapfrog - skips a court - straight to coa or supreme - important pol