Judicial Greffe Sections

This page gives bullet points of the functions of each section.

Links the Section Homepages are available at the bottom of this page.

Samedi Section 

• Managing actions pending before the Royal Court

• Taxing of Costs

• Administering the Legal Aid Disbursements Fund

• Processing Appeals from the Magistrate’s, Youth and Petty Debts Courts

• Registering Doctors and other professional persons

• Registering Deeds Poll

• Registering Foreign Judgments

• Registering Foreign Maintenance Orders

• Conducting Dégrèvements (Discumberments of Immovable Property)

• Managing the Electoral College List

• Acting as Postal Voting Officer at Public Elections

• Acting as Greffier Arbitre (Official Assessor or Arbitrator)

• Drafting Rules of Court

• Holding and investing monies paid into Court

• Processing Liquor Licences (issued by the Licensing Assembly)

• Processing Gambling Licences (issued by the Gambling Licensing Authority)

• Preparing Petitions of the Superior Number of the Royal Court to Her Majesty in Council

• Registration and Indexing of Orders in Council 

  Public Registry

• Maintaining the Registre Public (Public Register) of Contracts

• Providing Certified Extracts from the Books of the Public Registry

• Registering and Lodging of Wills of Immovable (Real) Property

• Registering Immovable (Real) Property and associated Contrats (Contracts)

• Registering and Cancelling Judicial Hypothecs (Reconnaissances)

• Registering Powers of Attorney

 Probate Section

• Granting Probate and Letters of Administration

• Overseeing the Curatorship system

 Family Section

• Filing petitions and administration of applications for divorce

• Hearing Summonses and making ancillary orders in matrimonial causes

• Assessing maintenance in other family matters (pension alimentaire)

• Preparing and submitting applications for adoption and processing subsequent paperwork

 Interlocutory Services

• Hearing Summonses and making orders in interlocutory (civil) matters

• Making Orders for service of legal process out of the jurisdiction and for substituted service

 Appellate Section

• Processing cases on appeal to the Court of Appeal

• Recording and Indexing appeals to the Privy Council

• Transcribing Judgments

• Recording and Transcribing Evidence

• Maintaining the Unreported Judgments Series

• Forwarding Judgments to the Editor of the Jersey Law Reports

• Acting as Secretary to the Prison Board of Visitors

 Magistrate’s, Youth and Petty Debts Court Greffe

• Providing for the operation of the Magistrate's Youth and Petty Debts Courts

Other Services

• Attending sittings of all Courts and Tribunals as Clerk

• Issuing and Enrolling Acts of the Court

• Advising on procedural Law

• Promoting law reform in the context of the Department’s service areas

• Taking Evidence in Chambers for foreign Courts