official referee
Until 1972, a judicial officer of the Supreme Court to whom certain matters could be referred, usually cases involving prolonged examination of accounts or large numbers of small items (such as building claims). The office was abolished by the Courts Act 1971 but the functions previously discharged by official referees can now be discharged by circuit judges nominated to take official referees’ business. The official referee’s court is now known as the Technology and Construction Court and official referees as judges of the Technology and Construction Court.

• Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
• children and young people’s plan
• children in care
• children in need
• children’s barred list
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• 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
• citation
• citator
• citizen of the European Union
• citizenship of the UK and Colonies