Mercantile Court: Wales and Chester

A Practice Direction issued in English and Welsh provides for a new Queen’s Bench list in the Cardiff District Registry, to be known as the ‘Cardiff Mercantile Court List’ and in the Chester District Registry to be known as the ‘Chester Mercantile Court List’. The Mercantile Courts and Business Lists Practice Direction (49HPD, supplementing CPR Part 49) applies to those lists. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Judge Nicholas Chambers QC to be the judge.