Court

A £800,000 ($970,000) inheritance dispute has reached London's High Court after 92-year-old Carry Keats tore up her will on her deathbed, leaving her sister and cousins to battle over the estate's validity.

Niloy Chakrabarti Oct 23, 2024

Sophia will keep her step-grandchildren out of her will to honour her late husband's dying wish, even if her current partner has nothing to leave behind for them.

Niloy Chakrabarti May 15, 2024

Donald Trump was also named in the documents but was not accused of wrongdoing.

Sadhna Yadav Jan 04, 2024

In a landmark ruling, an Indian court on Friday refused to dismiss rape charges filed against a man by his wife stating that "a rape is a rape," and that marriage does not grant "special license to unleash a beast."

Sadhna Yadav Mar 25, 2022

There is a lot of speculation whether Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will spend Christmas in the UK with the queen and the British royal family.

Oct 29, 2020

A furious Shelter Island resident has filed a case against town councils and trustees in New York State Supreme Court.

Oct 01, 2020

Britney's manager Jodi Montgomery is currently her temporary conservator who took over after her father Jamie experienced a series health issues in 2019.

Barnali Pal Sinha Aug 22, 2020

Court heard how the teen faced neglect until her death at the hands of her mother.

Agrima Tikader Aug 21, 2020

Britney Spears wants the court to end her father's 11-year-old conservatorship role over her, as per new documents.

Aug 19, 2020

The man warned that he would set himself on fire and came through on his threat even after preventive measures were taken.

Agrima Tikader Jul 21, 2020

A former teacher of the Lantern of Knowledge School in Leyton has been found guilty of trying to recruit children as young as 11 into Isis-style terrorism.

James Hetherington Mar 02, 2018

A former Google engineer is suing the Internet company and claiming the only reason he was sacked was because he spoke out against racism.

James Hetherington Feb 22, 2018

William Billingham was charged with the murder of his eight-year-old daughter and also with making threats to kill. Mylee died from a single stab wound to the chest.

Charlotte Tobitt Feb 11, 2018

Declan French, 21, of Bury, had sex with a 14-year-old girl and threatened to humiliate her with naked pictures she had sent over Snapchat.

Charlotte Tobitt Feb 09, 2018

A violent thug who was jailed for 17 years for a string of robberies has ended up sharing a cell with his dad.

Roger Baird Jan 23, 2018

A "wicked and obsessed" builder kidnapped, raped and cut the throats of two women before putting one of their bodies in a padlocked freezer, a court has heard.

Roger Baird Jan 17, 2018

A surgeon, Simon Bramhall, who burned his initials into the livers of two patients has been fined £10,000.

Roger Baird Jan 12, 2018

Gizar Ziyangareev beat Anna Barmina and attacked her with a knife, before dragging her into the woods to rape her with the branch of a tree in the western city of Ufa in September 2015, where all his crimes occurred.

Roger Baird Dec 29, 2017

DNA tests confirmed Domingo Bulacio was the father of the children born by his victim, named locally as Antonia. The eight children were fathered over a 22-year-period.

Roger Baird Dec 28, 2017

A divorced father won the right to read his children's WhatsApp messages in a court ruling that sets a precedent favouring parental responsibility over privacy laws in Spain.

Roger Baird Dec 27, 2017

Tramadol, a powerful opiate painkiller, is illegal in Egypt but available on prescription in the UK. Plummer claimed the pills were for her Egyptian boyfriend who suffered back pain, and she was not aware they were illegal in Egypt.

Roger Baird Dec 27, 2017

A 39-year-old woman will spend the next four years in jail after her dog, which had previously attacked children twice, mauled 12 kids at a local playground.

James Hetherington Dec 12, 2017

A Southend-on-Sea doctor is facing six charges of sexual assault and has been released on bail until his court hearing on 8 January.

James Hetherington Dec 11, 2017

The boy was burned with cigarettes during a 36-hour ordeal prior to the alleged sex attack in a disabled toilet in the Bristol's Children's Hospital, Bristol.

William Watkinson Dec 07, 2017

A halal supermarket in France must shut down after it refused to sell alcohol and pork, ruled a Paris court.

Roger Baird Dec 05, 2017

A Wolverhampton judge has stripped two parents of their three kids after it was revealed the mother and father were in an open relationship.

James Hetherington Dec 01, 2017

A murder victim's father detonated two grenades in Nikipol, a Ukrainian city in Dnipropetrovsk, with police saying he 'died on the spot after the explosion'.

William Watkinson Nov 30, 2017

Tony Deval Ledbetter pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated assault for choking and strangling his ex-girlfriend and using scissors to cut her nipples.

Charlotte Tobitt Nov 29, 2017

Australian heiress Olivia Mead saw her $25m inheritance slashed by more than a quarter after the estate of her mining mogul father appealed against her extravagant lifestyle.

Roger Baird Nov 22, 2017

Gary Mottershead, from Sale, was jailed after indecently assaulting a six-year-old boy "a number of times". Greater Manchester Police called his actions "absolutely disgraceful".

Charlotte Tobitt Nov 17, 2017