All news on the topic: High Court

Banking group Close Brothers will slash roughly 600 jobs in the UK and Ireland over the next 18 months to cut down on annual costs by £85 million.

Gerry Adams was the leader of the Irish Republican Army, two former police officers have told the high court.

Freemason police officers stated that they never provided or received special treatment due to their membership in the secretive organization.

Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was found guilty on Friday following a corruption trial linked to the multibillion-dollar embezzlement of the 1MDB state investment fund.

A freeze on assets exceeding $7 billion owned by sanctioned Russian businessman Roman Abramovich will remain in effect, following court rulings in Jersey.

A financier who sued his mum for £2.6m, claiming he was wrongfully "disinherited," has been left with a £1m court bill.

Hewlett Packard (HP) is seeking $1.7bn (£1.3bn) from the estate of Mike Lynch - who died last year when his yacht sank - over HP’s acquisition of his firm Autonomy, the tech giant’s lawyers have told the High Court.

The sale of a North Sea oil company backed by a billionaire Conservative donor has been delayed after fraud allegations emerged involving the buyer’s owner.

Chinese police said they are working with fraud victims on restitution, after a scammer pleaded guilty in London’s Southwark Crown Court to defrauding them and converting their funds into Bitcoin.

The ’fatal blow’ that led to the China spy case collapsing was the inclusion of a line from the Labour Party’s manifesto on Beijing.

Thousands of people are suing pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, alleging it knowingly sold talcum powder in the UK that was contaminated with asbestos.

A firm associated with former Conservative peer Michelle Mone has yet to pay the government any of the £122m required by a High Court ruling for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.

Credit Suisse has lost a 440 million US dollar (£325 million) High Court claim against Japan’s SoftBank Group over a restructuring agreement involving Lex Greensill’s collapsed firm.

A high-profile spying case has collapsed after the Labour Government declined to designate China as a national security threat, the Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson confirmed.

StudioCanal, the company holding the rights to Paddington Bear, is reportedly suing the producers of Spitting Image for portraying the bear as a foul-mouthed, drug-taking podcast host in their new online series.

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Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office has filed an indictment against five additional suspects accused of belonging to an international cocaine smuggling group dismantled in Operation “General,” in July last year—one of the largest international crackdowns on cocaine trafficking at the time.

A company associated with Tory peer Michelle Mone is required to repay the Government nearly £122 million for violating a PPE contract, according to a High Court ruling.

Noel Clarke must pay at least £3 million of The Guardian publisher’s legal costs after pursuing a “far-fetched” and “false case” against the newspaper’s reporting of allegations of sexual misconduct, a High Court judge has ruled.

The Home Office has lost its attempt to expedite the deportation of an Eritrean migrant to France under the "one in, one out" scheme.

A mother in New Zealand has been convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for five years, in a case that shocked the country.

A high court judge has overturned a Home Office decision allowing a vulnerable autistic man to be extradited to the US on cybercrime charges that could result in a possible 52-year sentence.

A second migrant’s deportation flight has left the UK for France under the “one in, one out” deal after losing a High Court bid to have his removal temporarily blocked, the Home Office said.