county court
Any of the civil courts forming a system covering all of England and Wales, originally set up in 1846. The area covered by each court does not invariably correspond to the local government county boundary. Under Part 7 of the Civil Procedure Rules, which sets out the rules for starting cases, the county court retains an unlimited jurisdiction for claims in contract and tort. It will hear some appeals (see appellate jurisdiction). Each court has a circuit judge and a district judge.

• child of the family
• child of unmarried parents
• Child Protection Conference
• child protection in divorce
• Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
• children and young people’s plan
• children in care
• children in need
• children’s barred list
• Children’s Commissioner
• children’s guardian
• child safety order
• child subjected to physical abuse
• child support maintenance
• child tax credit
• child witness
• Chiltern Hundreds, stewardship of the
• chose
• Church of England
• CIF contract
• circuit administrator
• circuit judge
• circuit system
• circumstantial evidence
• CISG