The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

E+W

[Note: where the entry “London Insolvency District” appears in this table, jurisdiction under Parts 1 to 7 of the Act is conferred on the High Court as a result of article 6B of the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/724) which was inserted by the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/821).]

Name of county court hearing centre	Parts of the Insolvency Act under which proceedings may be commenced at a county court hearing centre or the alternative court or county court hearing centre where proceedings may be commenced	Nearest full time court or hearing centre
Aberystwyth	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
Aldershot & Farnham	Guildford
Banbury	Parts 1 to 11	Luton, Gloucester or Reading
Barnet	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Barnsley	Parts 1 to 11	Sheffield
Barnstaple	Parts 1 to 11	Exeter
Barrow-in-Furness	Parts 1 to 11	Blackpool or Preston
Basildon	Southend-on-Sea
Basingstoke	Reading
Bath	Parts 1 to 11	Bristol
Bedford	Parts 1 to 11	Luton
Birkenhead	Parts 1 to 11
Birmingham	Parts 1 to 11
Blackburn	Parts 1 to 11	Preston
Blackpool	Parts 1 to 11
Blackwood	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
Bodmin	Truro
Bolton	Parts 1 to 11
Boston	Parts 1 to 11	Nottingham
Bournemouth and Poole	Parts 1 to 11
Bow	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Bradford	Parts 1 to 11
Brentford	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Brighton	Parts 1 to 11
Bristol	Parts 1 to 11
Bromley	Croydon
Burnley	Parts 1 to 11	Bolton or Preston
Bury	Parts 1 to 11	Bolton
Bury St. Edmunds	Parts 1 to 11	Cambridge
Caernarfon	Parts 1 to 11
Cambridge	Parts 1 to 11
Canterbury	Parts 1 to 11	Croydon or the High Court (London)
Cardiff	Parts 1 to 11
Carlisle	Parts 1 to 11	Preston or Blackpool
Carmarthen	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
County Court at Central London	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Chelmsford	Parts 1 to 11	Southend or the High Court (London)
Chester	Parts 1 to 11
Chesterfield	Parts 1 to 11	Sheffield
Chichester	Brighton
Chippenham and Trowbridge	Bath
Clerkenwell and Shoreditch	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Colchester	Parts 1 to 11	Southend or the High Court (London)
Conwy and Colwyn	Caernarfon
Coventry	Parts 1 to 11	Birmingham
Crewe	Parts 1 to 11	Stoke or Chester
Croydon	Parts 1 to 11
Darlington	Parts 1 to 11	Middlesbrough
Dartford	Medway
Derby	Parts 1 to 11
Doncaster	Parts 1 to 11	Sheffield
Dudley	Parts 1 to 11	Birmingham
Durham	Parts 1 to 11	Newcastle
Eastbourne	Parts 1 to 11	Brighton
Edmonton	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Exeter	Parts 1 to 11
Gateshead	Newcastle upon Tyne
Gloucester and Cheltenham	Parts 1 to 11
Great Grimsby	Parts 1 to 11	Hull
Guildford	Parts 1 to 11	Croydon
Halifax	Parts 1 to 11	Leeds
Harrogate	Parts 1 to 11	Leeds
Hartlepool	Middlesbrough
Hastings	Parts 1 to 11	Brighton
Haverfordwest	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
Hereford	Parts 1 to 11	Gloucester
Hertford	Parts 1 to 11	Luton
High Wycombe	Aylesbury
Horsham	Brighton
Huddersfield	Parts 1 to 11	Leeds
Ipswich	Parts 1 to 11	Norwich or Southend
Kendal	Parts 1 to 11	Blackpool or Preston
Kettering	Northampton
Kings Lynn	Norwich or Peterborough
Kingston-upon-Hull	Parts 1 to 11
Kingston-upon-Thames	Parts 1 to 11
Lambeth	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Lancaster	Parts 1 to 11	Blackpool or Preston
Leeds	Parts 1 to 11
Leicester	Parts 1 to 11
Lewes	Brighton
Lincoln	Parts 1 to 11	Nottingham
Liverpool	Parts 1 to 11
Llanelli	Swansea
Llangefni	Parts 1 to 11
Luton	Parts 1 to 11
Maidstone	Parts 1 to 11	Croydon or the High Court (London)
Manchester	Parts 1 to 11
Mansfield	Nottingham
Mayor's and City of London	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Medway	Canterbury	Croydon or the High Court (London)
Merthyr Tydfil	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
Middlesbrough	Parts 1 to 11
Milton Keynes	Parts 1 to 11	Luton
Mold	Wrexham	Wrexham
Newcastle upon Tyne	Parts 1 to 11
Newport (Gwent)	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
Newport (Isle of Wight)	Parts 1 to 11	Southampton or Portsmouth
Northampton	Parts 1 to 11	Luton
North Shields	Newcastle upon Tyne
Norwich	Parts 1 to 11
Nottingham	Parts 1 to 11
Nuneaton	Coventry
Oldham	Parts 1 to 11
Oxford	Parts 1 to 11	Reading
Peterborough	Parts 1 to 11	Cambridge
Plymouth	Parts 1 to 11
Pontypridd	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
Portsmouth	Parts 1 to 11
Port Talbot	Parts 1 to 11
Prestatyn	Parts 1 to 11
Preston	Parts 1 to 11
Reading	Parts 1 to 11
Reigate	Guildford
Rhyl	Parts 1 to 11	Birkenhead or Chester
Romford	Parts 1 to 11
Salisbury	Parts 1 to 11	Bournemouth or Southampton
Scarborough	Parts 1 to 11	York, Hull or Middlesbrough
Scunthorpe	Parts 1 to 11	Hull or Sheffield
Sheffield	Parts 1 to 11
Skipton	Bradford
Slough	Parts 1 to 11
Southampton	Parts 1 to 11
Southend-on-Sea	Parts 1 to 11
South Shields	Newcastle upon Tyne
Stafford	Parts 1 to 11	Stoke
Staines	Guildford
St Albans	Parts 1 to 11	Luton
St Helens	Liverpool
Stockport	Parts 1 to 11	Manchester
Stoke-on-Trent	Parts 1 to 11
Sunderland	Parts 1 to 11	Newcastle
Swansea	Parts 1 to 11	Cardiff
Swindon	Parts 1 to 11	Gloucester or Reading
Taunton	Parts 1 to 11	Exeter or Bristol
Telford	Parts 1 to 11
Thanet	Canterbury
Torquay & Newton Abbot	Parts 1 to 11	Exeter
Truro	Parts 1 to 11	Plymouth
Tunbridge Wells	Parts 1 to 11	Croydon
Uxbridge	The County Court at Central London
Wakefield	Parts 1 to 11	Leeds
Walsall	Parts 1 to 11
Wandsworth	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Warwick	Parts 1 to 11	Birmingham
Watford	Luton
Welshpool & Newton	Parts 1 to 11	Stoke or Chester
West Cumbria	Parts 1 to 11
Weston Super Mare	Bristol
Weymouth	Bournemouth	Bournemouth
Wigan	Parts 1 to 11	Bolton, Manchester or Preston
Willesden	London Insolvency District - High Court for Parts 1 to 7 (see head note); County Court at Central London for Parts 7A to 11
Winchester	Parts 1 to 11	Southampton
Wolverhampton	Parts 1 to 11
Woolwich	Croydon
Worcester	Parts 1 to 11	Gloucester
Worthing	Brighton
Wrexham	Parts 1 to 11	Birkenhead, Stoke or Chester
Yeovil	Parts 1 to 11	Exeter or Bristol
York	Parts 1 to 11

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 6 applied (with modifications) (temp.) (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 4 para. 47 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), Sch. 4 para. 12)

C2 Sch. 6 applied (with modifications) (30.9.2021) by S.I. 2014/229, art. 2(2A), Sch. 1A paras. 1(4)(5), 35, 38 (as inserted by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Administration) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1048), arts. 1(1), 2)