Chancery Chambers

Our Work | Chancery Masters | Masters' Appointments Section | Registry | Orders and Accounts Section

Our Work

Whilst trials and applications for injunctions are in general heard by the Judges, the majority of the rest of the work of the Chancery Division (outside insolvency) is conducted by the Masters (and deputy Masters) in Chancery Chambers.

The work of the Chancery Masters includes pre-trial work such as case management and other procedural applications. It also includes post-trial accounts and enquiries.

Filing of court documents may require a fee to be paid. Chancery fees are listed within the Civil Proceedings Fees Orders.
Our offices are open between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm for the payment of fees. After 4pm fees can be paid at the fees room.

The Chancery Masters are based in the Thomas More Building at the Royal Courts of Justice

The Office hours are 10.00am to 4.30pm

Chancery Masters

The Chancery Masters are: 

• Chief Master Winegarten - Room TM 708
• Master Moncaster - Room TM 706
• Master Bragge - Room TM 609
• Master Bowles - Room TM 607
• Master Price - Room TM 605
• Master Teverson - Room TM 705

All applications for hearings before the Masters should be made to the Masters Appointments Section (Room TM 709). All correspondence regarding matters before the Chancery Masters should be sent to this section initially.

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Masters' Appointments Section

Telephone: Section Manager - Lola Diyaolu 020 7947 6095
                  Clerks - 020 7947 6702 / 7391
Fax: 020 7947 7422

Email: rcjchancery.mastersappointments@hmcourts-service.gsi.gov.uk 

Located in room TM 7.09 on the 7th floor, this section is responsible for:

• issuing of application notices for hearing before the Chancery Masters
• fixing hearings before the Chancery Masters
• dealing with applications for consent orders
• applications without notice before the Chancery Masters
• lodgment of skeleton arguments and bundles for hearings before the Chancery Masters
• filing of affidavits and witness statements within 2 days of hearings before the Chancery Masters
• applications to serve documents out of the jurisdiction (i.e. outside England and Wales)
• filing testamentary documents and grants under Part 57 of the Civil Procedure Rules in contested probate cases
• Issuing of Stop Notices

Senior listing Officer – Doug Bell 020 7947 7717

Deputy Listing Officer – James Kelly 020 7947 6778

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Chancery Registry

Telephone: Section Manager - June Stewart 020 7947 6571
                  Clerks - 020 7947 6148 / 7785 / 7783
Fax: 020 7947 7422

Email: Chancery.registry@hmcourts-service.gsi.gov.uk

Located in room TM 5.04 on the 5th floor, this section is responsible for:

• issue and amendment of all Chancery process
• filing of admissions
• filing of defences
• acknowledgements of service & certificates of service
• allocation questionnaires
• notices of change of legal representative
• claim searches & requests for office copy documents
• processing applications for default judgments
• dealing with queries about court fees
• issuing of witness summonses and writs including fieri facias / possession
• filing of affidavits and witness statements (save those lodged within 2 days of a hearing before a Master, which are filed in room TM 7.09)
• transfers of claims into and out of Chancery Division from other courts (i.e. other divisions of the High Court or County Courts)
• miscellaneous payments out of court. Contact Sandra Drummond 020 7947 7929.
• default judgments including registering of judgments, orders & fines under the Registration of Judgments, Orders & Fines Regulations 2005.Contact Malcolm Dann 020 7947 6531 (room TM 5.07).

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 Chancery Associates (Orders and Accounts)

Telephone: 020 7947 6531(default judgments) 020 7947 6322 (associates, orders and accounts)
E-mail: rcjchancery.ordersandaccounts@hmcourts-service.gsi.gov.uk

Located in room TM 5.07 on the 5th floor, this section is responsible for:

• attending on the judges during court hearings and keeping a case note
• drafting and/or sealing of Judges' and Masters' orders
• drafting and checking of lodgement and payment schedules resulting from court orders
• judicial trustee and in contested probate cases receivership work
• lodgments in court pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925
• filing of witness statements relating to payments into court under the Trustee Act 1925, the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 & the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845.

The Chancery Associates are

Senior Associate : David Stevens ext:6322 david.stevens2@hmcourts-service.gsi.gov.uk

Associates: