The Spectator opinion piece, on UK Politics, 13 November 2026
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Read the original article on spectator.com (opens in a new tab)Harry Mount's Spectator column laments the renaming of the High Court's Chancery Division as the Business and Property Division and traces the history of the Court of Chancery. It argues openly for keeping old legal names. Nothing in it misleads the reader about the event it reports.
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“The Supreme Court of Judicature Act of 1875 ended the Court of Chancery but the Chancery Division lived on as part of the High Court of Justice”
The column separates the medieval Court of Chancery, dissolved in 1875, from the Chancery Division that has now been renamed. A reader is not left thinking the same body sat unchanged for a millennium.
“renamed it the Business and Property Division”
The column states plainly what actually happened: the division was renamed, not abolished. Its lament for the old name sits beside that fact.
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