Why is high court called high court? why not low? or even just court?
it may seem a stupid question but i seriously dont know
This is a hard question to answer, at hand are many higher courts, and usually you need to know where on earth one started to know which is a higher court.
Sometimes the US Supreme Court is called the "high court". In other countries some courts are call high court.
In the US a municipal and a justice court are city courts, appeals are to a higher court, usually a county court, but surrounded by some states to a district court. After the district court, usually then next higher court is a court of appeals, next there may be a court above that one, a supreme court, or in Texas the Court of Criminal Appeals for criminal cases.
Cases appealed in state court sometimes are competent to go to federal court, which is a diverent system, and has its own levels, starting next to district court, then court of appeals.
But to answer your question, in the us they usually only call it the court.
So you see, it is not a stupid question, and only a stupid personage would just dismiss the question without considering what the answer might be.
"High" Court is somewhat self explanatory as in the "senior" Court of the land (at least for most purposes) .The residence was brought in by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.
By "somewhat" I meant that it just partly explains "senior".
The general idea is that the High Court hear the more important cases according to the rules of jurisdiction go straight to it (i.e can only be started there).
But at hand is also the Court of Appeal which is "higher" than the High Court because appeals from the High Court go to it and it decides the rules of law which apply to adjectives courts below them including the High Court.
Even more confusing - above the Court of Appeal and being able to bind both the Court of Appeal and the High Court we have the (Judicial Committee of ) the House of Lords.
So "High" mostly finances "senior" but not "supreme".
Hope this helps.
when a case is tried both sides enjoy the opportunity to appeal if they are not happy with the verdict.
when a casing is appealed it will move up to be reviewed by a more senior court ( a bit like a superior reviewing someone performance at work) it moves up the hierarchical court structure, so the high court would be call so as it is one towards the top of the hierarchical chain :)
A "high" court usually refers to an appellate court, fairly than a trial court. The higher courts handle grievances people own about how their cases were handled surrounded by the lower courts. However, different jurisdictions have different names for their courts. The low courts surrounded by New York are called "Superior Courts", but in most states the "Supreme Court" is the highest court. Although we immediately normally use the word "high" to mean "tall", it's original designation is "important" or "principal". So the most important street in town is called the High Street and the most exalted court in the land is called the High Court.
I think it's a fitting question, better than some of the answers that's for sure. Waldo's answer is the best so far.
First, some clarity as to what it is.
The High Court (in the UK) deals with civil matter only - not rape or murder or anything like that.
It is the next tier up from the County Court(s) and is thus 'higher' in the heirarcy of civil justice.
There are higher courts, the court of apepal for example, but these are appelallte courts, not first insatcne courts.
Therefore the HC is the 'highest' court within the land. .
The HC deals with weighter matter of civil disputes - large and complex claims and heavy family matter.
HC Judges are more senior and better paid that CC Judges.
HC Judges are also more specialized and arranged into specialist courts: chancery, common law, commercial, technology, construction and so on.
The most high-status, but least understood disticntion is that the CC's are a creation of statute. therefore their powers are govern by statute and theyc annpot exceed those statutory powers.
In distinction, the HC has what is known as 'inherent jurisdiction'. It is not limited by statute and HC Judges are with the sole purpose limited by the extent of their constitutional authority which is, of course, unwritten in the UK.
A practical example is that a HC deem can therefore prevent or restrain the government doing anything, by way of injunction, unless the CA overturns him or her.
Sorry this is a bit long winded but I hope it is intelligible and is of some assist.
They have higher authority. They enjoy more power, and is filled with people, who aren't only just your averege joe. Executive like people. it's the supreme court, the last stop, the best court in the land.
It is call a High Court because they only deal with difficult cases of crime. Murder, rape, terrorism etc. The magistrates courts deal with crimes of a lesser humour. There are high courts and low courts. It simply designates the order in which cases move through the process as they appeal to a difficult court for relief from a lower court that ruled against them.
