RECORDS OF THE HIGHGATE PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION

The first two court register listed below date from before the formation of the Highgate Petty Sessional Division. They are both registers of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction. The first contains a few entries for the Holborn Petty Sessional Division relating to weight and measures offences followed by a record of cases from the parishes of Hornsey, Finchley and Friern Barnet within the Finsbury Petty Sessional Division, heard by the court sitting at Highgate. The second register is also a record of cases heard by the court sitting at Highgate, but relates to the other part of Highgate within the parish of St Pancras.

Highgate court:

registers 1884-1964

register of domestic proceedings 1942-1943

Juvenile registers 1933-1943

Court minutes 1887-1944

Licensing registers 1876-1949

<p>A larger part of the village of Highgate fell within the parish of St Pancras. For petty sessional business concerning this part see PS/PAN.</p>

In October 1890 a new petty sessional division was formed out of that part of the old Finsbury Petty Sessional Division falling within the new administrative county of Middlesex. This new division included the parishes of Hornsey, Finchley and Friern Barnet. It was given the name Highgate Petty Sessional Division. The name was taken from the village of Highgate part of which was in Hornsey parish. The justices of the old Finsbury Division had had a meeting place in Highgate from at least 1879 and the new division continued to be based there.