SHAW S DIRECTORY OF COURTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 2009/10

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SHAW’S DIRECTORY OF COURTS in the UNITED KINGDOM 2009/10 www.shaws.co.uk

A COMPANION TO CHERISH FOR THE WELL PREPARED LAWYER OR CLERK

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

If you’re a solicitor, barrister, a barrister’s clerk or solicitor’s clerk, a paralegal or court clerk, Shaw’s should be on your shelf. With Shaw’s Directory to hand, you need never wonder about how to find the location or contact details, or times and sittings of any court in the UK ever again. Judges and administrative personnel are also listed and completely up to date for the HM Courts list.

Shaw’s remains the most complete and certainly comprehensive reference of its type and in this important new edition, full details are included of the restructuring of the Scottish Court Service resulting from the Criminal Proceedings (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 which includes the new Justice of the Peace courts administered by the Scottish Court Service.

If you need to look up a court, whether current, abolished or combined, check the numerical index, which enables any court to be identified by its Court Code Number and proceed from there. Regular users of this indispensible directory will notice some subtle but important changes to its usual structure to ease navigation and therefore accessibility.

Pages are now numbered consecutively throughout the book rather than from the beginning of each section. (Now there’s an idea!) with each court section colour coded which is of great help and assistance. The Directory is divided into eight parts which for the sake of brevity, we shall need to summarise as follows:

Part I – the High Court and Crown Courts…Part II – the County Courts…Part III – Courts of Summary Jurisdiction…Part IV, Coroners and Coroners’ Officers…Part V – Probate Registries and Probate Courts…Part VI – The Crown Prosecution Service…Part V11 – Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (Scotland)…and finally, Part VIII which lists penal establishments, including contact details of HQ and high security establishments, local prisons and remand centres, training prisons, young offender institutions, immigration and removal centres and so on.

This is a companion which we continue to cherish and we find it one of the most instantly recognizable directories to be found in many of the local court offices today because it has all the information in one place which the admin staff need for instant reference to deal with basic factual questions from the public.

ISBN: 978-0-7219-1636-1