The Commercial Court Administration

The administrative work of the Commercial Court is performed by two offices.

The Commercial Court Listing Office is responsible for organising hearings for trials and for other applications. It has a Senior Listing Officer and a Listing Officer, who liaise with parties or their legal representatives and with the Commercial Judges to fix hearing dates and times and to allocate Judges for hearings. The Listing FAQs page contains more information about the Listing Office’s work.

The Admiralty & Commercial Registry deals with issuing of claim forms, application notices, and other documents, with payments of fees, and with other administrative matters. The Issue FAQs page provides further details. The Registry does not serve claim forms or other documents: unlike other parts of the High Court, documents in Commercial Court cases are usually served by the parties themselves.

The Commercial Court Listing Office and the Admiralty & Commercial Registry are both located in the Rolls Building.

In addition to the staff of the two Offices, each Judge has a clerk to assist with personal administration. The clerks will sometimes liaise with parties or their lawyers about lodging of documents for a hearing, drawing up and filing orders, or other practical matters relating to a trial or other hearing.

Staff from the Office and Registry also assist the Commercial Court Users Group. The Group serves as a forum for discussion of the Court’s performance and procedures, and contributes to the evolution of the Commercial Court Guide. It produces regular Minutes of Meetings.

The interior of the Rolls Building.

 

Commercial Court Listing Office Contacts

The Listing Office is responsible for organising dates and times for trials and other hearings. The Office is is always busy. For routine inquiries, it will often be quicker to consult the Listing FAQ’s page than to wait for a response from the Office, and it will usually be sensible to visit the FAQs page first, before e-mailing or phoning the Office.

Senior Listing Officer: Michael Tame

Listing Officer: Daniel Hull

E-mail contact: email: comct.listing@justice.gov.uk

Telephone: 0207 947 7156
0207 947 7357

 

Admiralty & Commercial Registry Contacts

The Issue Team in the Registry deals with the issuing of claim forms and application notices and payment of fees. To save time, it sensible to consult the Issue FAQs page before contacting the team directly, because the FAQs provide the answers to many routine inquiries.

Office counter: Monday-Friday, 10.00am - 4.30pm. Ground Floor, The Rolls Building, 7 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL. (Map)

E-mail contact: comct.issue1@justice.gov.uk

For CE filing support: efilesupport@justice.gov.uk

Telephone: Monday-Friday 10.00am-4.00pm: 0207 947 7783

(CE file: 0208 176 1850 - only if urgent)

 

Judges’ Clerks Contacts

Clerk to Mr Justice Andrew Baker

Clerk to Mr Justice Bright

Clerk to Mr Justice Bryan

Clerk to Mr Justice Butcher

Clerk to Mr Justice Calver

Clerk to Mrs Justice Cockerill

Clerk to Mrs Justice Dias

Clerk to Mr Justice Foxton

Clerk to Mr Justice Henshaw

Clerk to Mr Justice Jacobs

Clerk to Mr Justice Robin Knowles

Clerk to HH Judge Pelling KC

Clerk to Mr Justice Picken

Clerk to Mr Justice Waksman

Janet Amoroso

Mary Maynard

Sandra Appiah

Sarah Herald

Michaela Childs

Laura Hope

Osaid Khan

Kaylei Smith

Jay Howard

Alice Duddridge

Simran Chard

Shirley Sweeney

Christopher Palin

Lucius Allen

Telephone: 0207 947 6692

Telephone 0207 947 7915

Telephone: 0207 947 7079

Telephone: 0207 947 6296

Telephone: 0207 071 5727

Telephone:  0207 947 6231

Telephone: 0207 947 6296

Telephone: 0207 073 1732

Telephone: 0207 947 7915

Telephone: 0207 073 0272

Telephone: 0207 073 0292

Telephone: 0207 947 6402

Telephone: 0207 947 7952

Telephone: 0207 947 6104

 

The Commercial Court Users Group

The Secretary to the Commercial Court Users Group, 7 Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL. e-mail: comct.listing@justice.gov.uk.