High Court
High court usually refers to the [[superior court] of a country or state. In some countries, it is the highest court (for example, Australia). In others, it is positioned lower in the hierarchy of courts (for example, England and India). A person who presides as a judge in such a court may be called a High Court judge.'
List of high courts
Alphabetically by name of associated country:
- High Court of Australia
- High Court (Bhutan)
- High Court (Botswana)
- High people's courts in China
- The Eastern and Western High Courts of Denmark
- High Court of Justice (England and Wales), presided over by a High Court judge of that jurisdiction
- High Court of Fiji
- High Court (France)
- High Court (Germany)
- High Court (Guyana)
- High Court (Hong Kong)
- High Courts of India, several courts
- High Court (Ireland)
- High Court (Isle of Man)
- High Courts of Japan
- Haute Cour of Jerusalem
- High Court (Kenya)
- High Court (Lesotho)
- High Courts (Malaysia)
- High Court (Maldives) (not the supreme Court)
- High Court (Morocco)
- High Court (Nepal)
- High Court (New Zealand)
- High Courts of Nigeria
- High Courts of Pakistan, several courts
- High Court of Cassation and Justice (Romania)
- High Court of Justiciary (Scotland)
- High Court (Singapore)
- High Court of Sri Lanka
- High Court of South Africa
- High Courts of Spain, several courts
- High Court (Sweden)
- High Court of Taiwan
- High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
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