In her career, Mukhtar has been many firsts: she is the first female lawyer from Northern Nigeria, first female judge of the High Court in Kano State judiciary, the first female justice of the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria.
In October 2004, the High Court of Northern Ireland ordered the government to provide the Brolly couple with protection, following reports of threats from the Red Hand Defenders, a Loyalist paramilitary group.
This decision met with strong opposition and in August 2013 campaigners, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Surrey Green Party and the Leatherhead Residents' Association, won a High Court appeal to overturn that decision, on the basis that the project would have an adverse effect on a landscape and area of outstanding natural beauty, and that Surrey did not need another golf course, having 141 already.
the Government reluctantly accepted that the issue would be adjudicated by a High Court judge (Mr. Justice Danckwerts) who judged decisively in the GPs' favour.
The club appealed the decision, and took their case all the way to the High Court, but it was dismissed.
Sir Edwin Frank Jowitt, (born 1 October 1929), is a British former High Court judge.
In August 2010, Norwich-based writer and artist John Savage issued a High Court writ, claiming that the original book is based on his own work, Captain Pottie's Wildlife Encyclopedia. The writ claims Savage's artistic and literary copyright has been infringed by Gervais.
In November 2004 the High Court in the UK ruled that a 'miracle baby' in London was the victim of child trafficking, and that the supposed miracle displayed was a ruse in order to generate funds from a "deceived congregation".
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Deya appealed against extradition on the grounds that he might face torture in Kenya, but in late 2008 his case was rejected by the High Court and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused.
The main judivial structure in Gilgit–Baltistan comprises a High Court, composed of three judges selected by the government, supported by the Supreme Appellate Court.
On 24 September 2009, the club was officially wound up at the High Court in London, with debts of around £120,000 to HM Revenue and Customs.
Sullivan was made a QC in 1982, recorder from 1989–97, deputy judge of the High Court from 1993–97, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) 1997–2009.
Today, the law ensures the salary is higher than that for the Chief Justice of the High Court, over a five-year period.
In March 2012, after a successful legal challenge at the High Court, they announced that the actor Martin Shaw would become their official patron.
Justice Retired Tariq Pervez Khan was the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court in Pakistan.
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In the case of Christian Lawyers Association v Minister of Health an anti-abortion organisation challenged the validity of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act on the basis that it violated the right to life in section 11 of the Bill of Rights; the Transvaal Provincial Division of the High Court dismissed their argument, ruling that constitutional rights only apply to people and not to fetuses.
In March 2003, British company Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) stated its wish to "initiate discussions regarding the applicability of the royalty offset provisions for Humira" with Abbott Laboratories in the High Court of London.
In 2013 a trademark dispute between Accolade Wines and the Cath Kidston home furnishings company was taken to the High Court.
On 29 June 2006, Bernard Darnton filed proceedings in the High Court, suing Helen Clark for allegedly misappropriating public funds to pay for the Labour Party's pledge cards during the 2005 election.
In 2008, Jackson worked as design consultant alongside a panel of judges, designing new gowns for High Court and Court of Appeal judges.
The Labor Party immediately challenged Field's appointment in the High Court, and he was on leave from the Senate from 1 October for the remainder of his short-lived term, which ended when the parliament was dissolved on 11 November.
His death had earlier been found by a private MoD inquest to have been as a result of "misadventure" but this was quashed by the High Court in 2002.
This was alongside a High Court judgement rejecting GNER's application for a judicial review over Grand Central Railway's access to the East Coast Main Line.
He served from 1979 to 1987 as Standing Junior Counsel (legal advisor appointed by the Lord Advocate) to the Department of Health and Social Security, and from 1985 to 1988 as an Advocate Depute, representing the Crown in prosecutions and appeals in the High Court.
a part of the High Court situated in various districts of England and Wales dealing with High Court family and civil business.
A Royal Commission was called into the explosion at Longford, headed by former High Court judge Daryl Dawson.
The judges' decision was to confirm the refusal of a patent by the United Kingdom Patent Office and by J Laddie on Appeal before the High Court.
Gair was not the only non-Labor person in Labor's sights: they also offered the post of Ambassador to the Holy See to Frank McManus (he refused outright); and they had been considering offering Liberal senator Peter Durack a seat on the High Court, but never approached him.
Sir John Deed (played by Martin Shaw) is a recently appointed High Court judge who actively seeks justice in the cases before him, while at the same time trying to rekindle an old romance with former pupil Jo Mills QC, who regularly appears in his court.
These include a Supreme Court decision that government must give reasons for opinions (Boyne estuary habitat restoration) and High Court injunctive relief to halt creosote sludge dumping in Waterford Port.
Sir Keith John Lindblom (born 20 September 1956), styled The Hon Mr Justice Lindblom, is a former Queen's Counsel and current judge at the Queen's Bench in the High Court.
Aldershot finished the 1989–90 season third from bottom of Fourth Division, but were by now in serious financial difficulties, narrowly avoiding being wound up by the High Court in the summer of 1990.
The park is bounded by Maha Bandula Garden Street in the east, Sule Pagoda Road in the west, Konthe Road in the south and Maha Bandula Road in the north, and is surrounded by some of the important buildings in the area such as the Sule Pagoda, the Yangon City Hall and the High Court.
However, in May 2008, the High Court held that the Laws in Wales Act 1535 had abolished the jurisdictional franchise of Marcher Lord entirely and that Roberts had no such status.
This was triggered by the Chief Justice of the High Court (sitting as a Court of Disputed Elections) declaring invalid the election of Sir Malcolm McEacharn to the seat in the 1903 federal election.
In 1993, he became a bencher and was appointed to the High Court, sitting in the Family Division, whereupon he was appointed a knight bachelor.
Between 1992 and 1994, Roxon was employed as a judge's associate to High Court Justice Mary Gaudron.
The case was appealed first to the High Court, then to the House of Lords.
Havers comes from a leading legal family - his grandfather Sir Cecil Havers was a High Court judge, his father Michael Havers, Baron Havers, became Attorney General and then Lord Chancellor.
The three defendants were (1) Arnold Schwarzenegger, (2) Sean Walsh, the campaign spokesman whose application to dismiss service ultimately came before the High Court, and (3) Sheryl Main, Mr. Schwarzenegger’s publicist.
Ribeiro quickly rose through the ranks, and was appointed Judge of the High Court in 1999, promoted to the Court of Appeal (High Court) as a Justice of Appeal in 2000, and a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal the same year.
The judgment in CFPH's applications was the first in a flurry of UK court cases starting in 2005 involving re-consideration by the High Court of patent applications refused by the UKIPO and made many references to the practice of the EPO.
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The case in question had been refused by the UKIPO and by J Laddie on Appeal before the High Court.
Two cases were heard in the High Court of circumstances where this interim order had been granted but landlords were nonetheless able to lawfully gain the right of peaceable re-entry / seizing of goods in respect of rent arrears.
This decision was upheld and the case proceeded to the High Court where it was again upheld.
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The High Court held that it did only if it was of benefit to the subdivided parts.
The verdict was appealed, went to the High Court and the Privy Council in London, and concluded with a review by a Royal Commission.
Ro Teimumu Kepa is the widow of Sailosi Kepa, a former high commissioner to London, minister of justice and attorney general (1988–1992) who went on to become a High Court judge, Ombudsman, and first chairman of Fiji's Human Rights Commission.
He took silk in 1971 and was Leader of the Northern Circuit from 1978 until 1980, when he was appointed to the High Court.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council applied to the High Court for a judicial review, and the plans have been shelved for five years while an alternative solution is sought.