Edinburgh

Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, serving life for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, applies for interim release from jail pending the outcome of an appeal against his conviction on November 6. The Libyan has prostate cancer, which has spread to other parts of his body

Belfast Crown Court

Judgment due in the trial of the loyalist Michael Stone, who denies trying to murder Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness as well as a series of other charges arising from when he stormed Parliament Buildings in Belfast in 2006

Bolton Crown Court

Anthony David Atherton, 50, the millionaire founder of Dabs.com, to appear in plea hearing charged with false imprisonment, attempted rape and possession of Class A drugs after a woman, 49, told police she had been kept prisoner at his mansion in Bolton

Old Bailey

John Griffin, 70, of Isleworth, London, due to be sentenced for manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility after pleading guilty to killing his wife Iris, 79, in August 2007. They both had cancer and had no children to look after them

High Court

Judgment on a damages claim by Graham Anderson, left paralysed after he skied into a tree in the Alps

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