SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Distribution of Business in High Court

Queen’s Bench Division

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To the Queen’s Bench Division are assigned—

(a)

applications for writs of habeus corpus, except applications made by a parent or guardian of a minor for such a writ concerning the custody of the minor;

(b)

applications for judicial review;

F1(ba)

all control order proceedings (within the meaning of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005);

F2(bb)

all financial restrictions proceedings within the meaning of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (see section 65 of that Act);

(c)

all causes and matters involving the exercise of the High Court’s Admiralty jurisdiction or its jurisdiction as a prize court; and

(d)

all causes and matters entered in the commercial list.