Topic - High Court

The term High Court usually refers to the superior court (or supreme court) of a country or state. In some countries, it is the highest court (e.g. Australia). In others, it is positioned lower in the hierarchy of courts (e.g. in England & Wales). - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - People walk outside the High Court building in Canberra, Australia, on Nov. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, File)

Australian High Court overturns law that forced scores of migrants to wear tracking bracelets

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Harry leaves the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, on March 30, 2023. Prince Harry's lawyer says the cover-up of unlawful information gathering at British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch went all the way to the top. Attorney David Sherborne said Wednesday, March 20, 2024 in the High Court that Murdoch was among the executives at News Group Newspapers aware of skullduggery carried out by journalists and private investigators working for the now-defunct News of the World, and The Sun. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Prince Harry’s lawyer implicates Rupert Murdoch in cover-up of unlawful snooping by his tabloids

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

Australian Minister for Home Affairs Clare O'Neil gestures during question time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. The Australian government on Wednesday proposed new laws that would place behind bars some of the 141 migrants who have been set free in the three weeks since the High Court ruled their indefinite detention was unconstitutional. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia proposes new laws to detain potentially dangerous migrants who can’t be deported

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra on Sept. 12, 2023. Australia's immigration minister said Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, that 80 people including convicted criminals who are considered dangerous have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

3 murderers freed in Australia after court ruled out holding migrants indefinitely, minister says

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

A fence surrounds a seemingly unoccupied building on the grounds of a proposed new Russian Embassy near the Australian Parliament in Canberra, Feb. 28, 2023. A suspected lone Russian diplomat was on Friday, June 23, 2023, apparently squatting on the site of the proposed embassy that the Australian government has vetoed. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act of defiance saying a "bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security." (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australia’s High Court dismisses Russia’s bid for injunction to halt its embassy’s eviction

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, arrive at the Intrepid Sea, Air &amp; Space Museum for the Salute to Freedom Gala Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in New York. The Duke of Sussex will also present the inaugural Intrepid Valor Award to five service members, veterans and their military families. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

U.K. court backs Meghan in dispute over privacy with publisher

By Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless

This artist sketch depicts Center for Reproductive Rights Litigation Director Julie Rikelman speaking to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington. Seated to Rikelman's right is Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar. Justices seated from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Roe on death watch

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 7, 2005, file photo, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam holds up the original copy of his dismissal letter he received from then Governor-General Sir John Kerr on Nov. 11, 1975, at a book launch in Sydney, Australia. The High Court's majority decision in historian Jenny Hocking’s appeal on Friday, May 29, 2020, overturned lower court rulings that more than 200 letters between the monarch of Britain and Australia and Governor-General Sir John Kerr before he dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s government were personal and might never be made public. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Australian court rules queen’s letters can be made public

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

A man wearing a mask for protection against the spread of the coronavirus holds a sign in front of a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Benny Gantz, left, that reads: &quot;say no the a corrupt government, &quot; as another one holds and Israeli flag during a protest against the government and the corruption, at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 2, 2020. Several thousand Israelis took to the streets on Saturday night, demonstrating against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new coalition deal with his chief rival a day before the country's Supreme Court is to begin debating a series of legal challenges to the agreement.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli high court could determine Netanyahu’s future

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Cardinal George Pell sits in the back seat of a car as he leaves prison in Geelong, Australia Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Pope Francis' former finance minister Pell had been the most senior Catholic found guilty of sexually abusing children and has spent 13 months in high-security prisons before seven High Court judges unanimously dismissed his convictions. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)

Cardinal Pell welcomes court’s dismissal of abuse conviction

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press