All news on the topic: High Court

A classic musician is suing Starbucks for over £2 million after a wooden fridge surround fell on her head, which caused injuries so bad she says they ended her career.

Plans for a new Chinese super-embassy in London have been given the go-ahead after a High Court dismissed a challenge to its planning permission.

The High Court has granted permission for the publication in a national newspaper of the names of more than 300 former Christian Brothers who are now co-defendants accused of a breach of duty in a civil abuse claim.

Amy Winehouse’s dad has been ordered to pay nearly £1million to her pals after claiming they had secretly flogged his daughter’s possessions.

An English YouTube star who became famous playing Minecraft online will be extradited to Poland to face allegations of child sex crimes.

A 19-year-old woman whose images were used to create fake Tinder, TikTok and Instagram profiles leading men to believe she was their girlfriend is to be paid compensation.

A disinherited nephew could face prison over claims he threatened to beat up lawyers dealing with his late aunt’s estate after she left her £200,000 fortune to charity.

Senior MI5 officers could be prosecuted for lying during a court case about a neo-Nazi agent on their payroll.

Boyband frontman Lee Ryan is set to be sentenced for a racially aggravated assault on a Black air steward after losing a High Court bid to clear his name.

A retired nurse who helped expose Jimmy Savile is locked in a £35,000 legal battle after the NHS threw him out of his family home.

A multimillionaire tax accountant - who signed everything he had over to his wife to dodge paying debts - could now lose his "chocolate box" country home after a £600,000-plus defeat in court.

Shabana Mahmood’s one-in, one-out deal has been thrown into chaos after migrants successfully argued deporting them was unlawful.

A judge has warned of the risks of using AI in court hearings after documents from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) contained references to “non-existent” legal cases.

Harry arrived in the UK on Monday evening and so will be in the country when the judgment is published on Tuesday afternoon, after an 11-week trial earlier this year in his claim against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over alleged unlawful information gathering.

The pair are facing legal proceedings in Romania, where they currently live, but will be extradited to the UK once these proceedings are concluded to face a total of 21 charges, including rape, actual bodily harm, and human trafficking.

Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman are among individuals being sued in an attempt to recover some of the millions owed to the government by his collapsed company, PPE Medpro.

Swindler Ekaterina Barrett was regularly spotted sweeping through London’s wealthiest postcodes in a Bentley, dressed head-to-toe in Gucci, and walking her beloved Italian greyhounds.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander approved the £2.2 billion scheme in September, which would have seen the West Sussex airport move its emergency runway 12 metres north to accommodate around 100,000 more flights a year.

A man is to stand trial charged with the murder of his partner.

A £1.8 million inheritance dispute between two women, each of whom married the same man in Las Vegas, may turn out to be futile after a court was informed that the entire fortune might have been depleted from his estate.

More Brits who were onboard a turbulent Singapore Airlines flight which left one grandfather dead and dozens more injured have joined forces to sue the airline.

A former head gamekeeper found guilty of murdering an ex-colleague with a shotgun has been refused leave to appeal against his conviction.