What were the Quarter sessions and Assizes replaced by
Assizes Court. The Assize Courts were replaced with the establishment of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka under the Judicature Act, No. 2 of 1978. Assizes The courts of assize, or assizes (), were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. The assizes exercised both civil and criminal jurisdiction, though most of their work was on the criminal side. The assizes heard the most serious cases, which were committed to it by the quarter sessions (local
Middlesex Quarter Sessions Hall. A new Middlesex Sessions House was opened at Clerkenwell Green in 1780. The area of the Middlesex sessions was reduced in 1889 when the County of London Quarter Sessions were created. The Middlesex sessions moved to Westminster Guildhall, also the location of Middlesex County Council from 1913. Middlesex Quarter Sessions were replaced by the Greater London Quarter Sessions in 1965, although the Middlesex area continued to be used as a commission area for sessions until 1971. From the sixteenth century, the court had a role in the local government of Middlesex, which contained many of the metropolitan parishes of