Judge's chambers

A judge's chambers is the office of a judge, where certain types of matters can be heard "in chambers", also known as in camera, rather than in open court.

In English legal history, there was no such statutory sanction for the process before 1821, though the custom can be traced back to the 17th century.

provided for sittings in chambers between terms, and an act of Parliament[which?]

of 1822 empowered the sovereign to call upon the judges by warrant to sit in chambers on as many days in vacation as should seem fit; later the Law Terms Act 1830 defined the jurisdiction to be exercised at chambers.

The Judges' Chambers Act 1867 was the first act, however, to lay down proper regulations for chamber work, and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 preserved that jurisdiction and gave power to increase it thereafter.