what is the jurisdiction of the district court??

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Criminal Jurisdiction

- The District Court deals with indictable offences transferred to it from the Magistrates' Court. A District Court Judge sits alone without a jury.

- The District Court may try all serious criminal cases except murder, manslaughter and rape. The maximum term of imprisonment it can impose is 7 years.

Civil Jurisdiction

The most common types of civil action that the District Court deals with are:

- Contract, quasi-contract & tort (including personal injuries claims) - for a contract, quasi-contract or tort claim to be handled by the District Court rather than the Court of First Instance of the High Court, it must be for an amount over $50,000 but not more than $1 million.

- Recovery of land or premises - the District Court deals with buildings or premises the annual rent or rateable value or the annual value of which does not exceed $240,000.

- Claims in equity (such as administration of estate of a deceased person, trust, mortgage, specific performance, maintenance of infant, dissolution of partnership, relief against fraud or mistake) - generally speaking, where proceedings do not relate to land, the maximum value involved shall not exceed $1 million. Where proceedings do relate to land, the maximum value involved shall not exceed $3 million; and further, for proceedings for the recovery of land or relating to the title to land, the rateable value of the land must not exceed $240,000.

- Distress

- Employees' compensation cases (there is no limit on the amount claimed)

- Sex discrimination, disability and family status discrimination cases

- Matrimonial cases including divorce, maintenance, custody and adoption of children (the court which handles these types of cases is also known as the Family Court).

what is the jurisdiction of the district court??

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