An application by the Attorney General to quash the original Hillsborough inquest verdicts is due to be heard at the High Court on Wednesday, December 19, the Judicial Office said today.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza, who held sermons in and around Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, has launched a last-minute High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States, it has been confirmed.

A British High Court judge will rule today on a multibillion-pound legal battle between Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.

The two men jailed for the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in south east London have lost the first round of their attempt to challenge their convictions at the Court of Appeal.

A secret code has been hidden in a UK High Court judgement by the judge at the centre of the Da Vinci Code copyright trial.