Crown Court 
noun
(In England and Wales) a court of criminal jurisdiction, which deals with serious offences and appeals referred from the magistrates' courts.Their effect is the early transfer of jurisdiction for management of such cases from magistrates to the Crown Court....
- This concerns an order for costs made by the Crown Court on an appeal from a magistrates court.
- It follows that there was no jurisdiction in the Crown Court to make the determinations which it did in December 2001.