Administration of Justice Act 1977

The Administration of Justice Act 1977 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Part I - General

Section 6 - Temporary additional judges for Employment Appeal Tribunal

This section was repealed by section 159 of, and Schedule 17 to, the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978.

Section 8 - Oaths and affirmations

This section was repealed on 31 July 1978 by Part I of the Schedule to the Oaths Act 1978.

Part II - England and Wales

Section 9 - Appeals

This section was repealed by section 152 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Senior Courts Act 1981.

Section 10 - Appointment to office

This section was repealed by section 152 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Senior Courts Act 1981.

Section 23 - Jurisdiction of ancient courts

This section, with Schedule 4 and Part V of Schedule 5, implemented recommendations made, in the report "Jurisdiction of Certain Ancient Courts", by the Law Commission. It provided that certain courts would cease to have jurisdiction to hear and determine legal proceedings, but could continue to sit and transact other business it could customarily transact.
The courts affected were:

Courts baron
Courts leet
Customary courts of the manor
Courts of pie poudre
Courts of the staple
Courts of the clerks of the markets
Hundred courts
Law Days
Views of frankpledge
Common law county courts as known before the passing of the County Courts Act 1846.
The Basingstoke Court of Ancient Demesne
The Coventry Court of Orphans
The Great Grimsby Foreign Court
The King's Lynn Court of Tolbooth
The City of London Court of Husting
The City of London Sheriffs' Court for the Poultry Compter
The City of London Sheriffs' Court for the Giltspur Street Compter
The Macclesfield Court of Portmote
The Maidstone Court of Conservancy
The Melcombe Regis Court of Husting
The Newcastle upon Tyne Courts of Conscience or Requests and Conservancy
The Norwich Court of Mayoralty
The Peterborough Dean and Chapter’s Court of Common Pleas
The Ramsey Court of Pleas
The Ripon Court Military
The Ripon Dean and Chapter’s Canon Fee Court
The St. Albans Court of Requests
The Court of the Hundred, Manor and Borough of Tiverton
The York Courts of Husting
Guildhall and Conservancy
The Ancient Prescriptive Court of Wells
The Cheney Court of the Bishop of Winchester.

It also limited the Court of the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and the Cambridge University Chancellor’s Court to jurisdiction under the statutes of those universities.

Section 26

From 1 February 1978, the provisions of section 26 relating to mortgage cautions, subject to any necessary modification, apply also to sub-mortgage cautions. The Land Registration Rules 1977 are consequential on section 26.

Part III - Other provisions

Section 32 - Citation etc

The following orders were made under section 32:

The Administration of Justice Act 1977 Order 1977
The Administration of Justice Act 1977 Order 1977
The Administration of Justice Act 1977 Order 1977
The Administration of Justice Act 1977 Order 1978. Made on 6 June 1978.
The Administration of Justice Act 1977 Order 1979
The Administration of Justice Act 1977 Order 1980