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The Chancellor of the High Court is the head of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. Before October 2005, when certain provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 took effect, the office was known as the Vice-Chancellor. He effectively acted as the Lord Chancellor's deputy in the British legal system. Despite the change of title, the duties of the office as deputy head of the Chancery Division remain unchanged. In April 2006 the Lord Chancellor ceased to be President of the Chancery Division and the Chancellor of the High Court assumed that responsibility. (However the Lord Chancellor had only held the presidency in an honorary capacity while the Chancellor was delegated the day-to-day duties, so this involved no substantial change.)

History of the office

The judges of the Court of Chancery (apart from the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls), before the creation of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales in 1873-75, held the title of Vice-Chancellor. The first of them was appointed in 1813 and two more such posts were added in 1842. After the Judicature Acts of the 1870s Vice-Chancellors were not appointed, and judges of the Chancery Division were styled "Mr. Justice ..." like other judges of the High Court (this style had previously been used for judges of the common law courts).

In 1971 the office of Vice-Chancellor was recreated, to be the Vice President of the Chancery Division of the High Court.

Sir Robert Andrew Morritt became the Vice-Chancellor in July 2000 and is the first Chancellor of the High Court.

List of Vice-Chancellors 1971-2005 and Chancellor of the High Court from 2005

References

  • A History of English Law, Vol. I, by Sir William Holdsworth (Methuen & Co, 1961 reprint)
  • Twentieth-Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, by David Butler and Gareth Butler (Macmillan Press 2000)

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