The Practice and Procedure of the Commercial Court by Anthony D. Colman, QC. Published by Lloyds of London Press Ltd, xxiii and 188 pp . ( inclusive Appendices and Index ). Price £23.50 Hardback . A special list for Commercial Causes was first established by resolution of the judges of the Queen's Bench Division as long ago as February 1895 and cases tried in this list, which were heard by a judge experienced in commercial litigation, were colloquially referred to as having been tried in the Commercial Court. In fact, however, it was not until the Administrative of Justice Act, 1970, that the Commercial Court was formally established. However, in 1964 Order 72 of the Rules of the Supreme Court was introduced dealing for the first time with commercial actions in the Queen's Bench Division. This did make use of the expression ‘Commercial Court’ and by Rule 4 introduced a procedural change of substantial importance. This enabled a plaintiff on using his writ to mark it ‘Commercial List’, whereas previously leave to enter in that list had had to be specially applied for by a summons to transfer. This simple reform, introduced to save costs, led to a steady increase in the number of actions in the ‘Commercial List’ and was the precursor of the remarkable expansion in the work of the Court in recent years. So great has this been that frequently the Court has had to sit in five divisions, whilst the interlocutory summonses issued and disposed of have sometimes exceeded in …