Inner London Crown Court

The Inner London Sessions House Crown Court, more commonly called the Inner London Crown Court, is a Crown Court building in Newington, London, United Kingdom. It stands in the Sessions House on Newington Causeway at the corner of Harper Road and is a Grade II listed building. The first building on the site was designed by George Gwilt the Elder and opened as the Surrey County Sessions House in 1791, next to the Horsemonger Lane Gaol. After local government reorganisation in 1889 the London County Council inherited both the Middlesex and the Surrey sessions houses, and the justices chose to close the Middlesex Sessions House and rebuild the Newington Causeway building to take on the extra workload. The new and expanded Sessions House, designed by the county architect W. E. Riley in the classical style, was completed in 1921. It was designated a Crown Court venue in 1971 and was extended in 1974 to provide 10 courts for use on the South Eastern Circuit. Recent cases heard there include the trial that followed the 2009 Upton Park riot, in which several West Ham supporters were convicted of violent disorder in April 2010.