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27 unusual facts about High Court of Justice


Adalimumab

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.

Arthur Luxmoore

He became a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1922, and in February 1929 was knighted and made a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice.

Balen Report

The BBC appealed against the decision of the Information Tribunal to the High Court on two grounds: that the Information Tribunal did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from the Information Commissioner in this case and that even if did its decision was flawed as a matter of law.

Betty Jackson

In 2008, Jackson worked as design consultant alongside a panel of judges, designing new gowns for High Court and Court of Appeal judges.

Chemical weapons and the United Kingdom

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.

Cyril Wilkinson

During his time as Registrar of the Probate and Divorce Registry, he was joint editor of the Seventh Edition of William Rayden's Practice and law in the Divorce Division of the High Court of Justice and on appeal therefrom, published in 1958 by Butterworth.

District registry

a part of the High Court situated in various districts of England and Wales dealing with High Court family and civil business.

Earl Talbot

::Sir George John Talbot, a Judge of the High Court of Justice, who was admitted to the Privy Council in 1937, and

John Charman

On 2 August 2006, Mr Justice Coleridge decreed in the High Court of Justice that a fair settlement would involve Charman giving his wife around 37 per cent of his assets.

In August 2006 in what is believed to be the largest sum awarded to an English wife in a contested case, Charman was ordered to pay his ex-wife by the High Court of Justice a sum of £48 million.

Joseph Keehan

Michael Joseph Keehan is a British judge of the High Court of Justice of the Courts of England and Wales.

Kevan Brown

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.

Len Walker

On 31 July 1990, Aldershot was wound up in the High Court due to six-figure debts that had rendered the club "hopelessly insolvent", and it looked as though Walker and everyone else at the club would soon be without a job.

Marcher Lord

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.

Matty Holmes

In 2004, Holmes was awarded £250,000 by the English High court for damages resulting from the tackle by Kevin Muscat.

Nicholas Wilson, Lord Wilson of Culworth

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.

President of the Family Division

The President of the Family Division is the head of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and Head of Family Justice.

Rivett-Carnac baronets

On 11 March 1924 an order was issued in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, presuming his death to have occurred on 31 December 1909.

Roger Toulson, Lord Toulson

In 1996 he became a judge of the High Court of Justice, and from 2002 to 2006 sat as Chairman of the Law Commission of England and Wales.

Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell

Gorell was the second son of John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell, President of the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.

Software patents under United Kingdom patent law

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.

The case in question had been refused by the UKIPO and by J Laddie on Appeal before the High Court.

Sole Trader Insolvency

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.

Stephen baronets

The Stephen Baronetcy, of De Vere Gardens in the parish of Saint Mary Abbott, Kensington, in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 29 June 1891 for Sir James Stephen, a judge of the High Court of Justice.

The Accident Group

Although having an estimated fortune of between £40m and £75m, Langford had previously been served with a High Court bankruptcy writ aboard his £1.5million 80 ft yacht Mermaid’s Whisper in Puerto Banús.

Thomas Patrick Russell

He took silk in 1971 and was Leader of the Northern Circuit from 1978 until 1980, when he was appointed to the High Court.

Wilfholme Landing

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.


Anthony McCowan

Sir Anthony James Denys McCowan (12 January 1928 – 3 July 2003) was a British barrister and judge of the High Court of Justice and Court of Appeal best known for trying the case of Clive Ponting in 1985.

Christopher Garnett

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.

Christopher Staughton

Sir Christopher Staughton QC (born 24 May 1933) is a British barrister and retired judge, sitting as a justice of the High Court of Justice, Court of Appeal of England and Wales and President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar.

Corby toxic waste case

The Corby toxic waste case was a court case decided by The Hon. Mr. Justice Akenhead at the High Court of Justice, London, on 29 July 2009 in the case of Corby Group Litigation v. Corby Borough Council 2009 EWHC 1944 (TCC).

David Maddison

Sir David George Maddison (born 22 January 1947) is a former British judge of the High Court of Justice, part of the Courts of England and Wales.

Fujitsu's Application

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.

Gilbert Deya

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".

Hula massacre

The military court rejected this defence but gave Lahis a postponement so that he could appeal this point to the High Court of Justice.

Jeremy Baker

Jeremy Russell Baker (born 9 February 1958) is a British judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

Jeremy Sullivan

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.

John O'Hagan

After Gladstone had passed his Irish Land Act, he chose O'Hagan as the first judicial head of the Irish Land Commission, making him for this purpose a judge of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice.

Judge John Deed

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.

Keith Lindblom

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.

Lawtel

Cases are reported from the Supreme Court, Privy Council, Court of Appeal (Civil), Court of Appeal (Criminal), High Court, selected tribunals, Crown Court, and the County Court.

Nicholas Padfield

Nicholas Padfield is a British lawyer, QC, and deputy High Court judge.

Operation Spanner

The case was appealed first to the High Court, then to the House of Lords.

Philip Havers

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.

Prerogative court

The jurisdiction of the prerogative courts was transferred to the Court of Probate in 1857 by the Court of Probate Act 1857, and is now vested in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice by the Judicature Act.

Richardson v Schwarzenegger

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.

Turkel Commission

Other jurists criticized the panel's limited mandate, and the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom sent a petition to Israel's High Court of Justice.