Which court is handling Hollie Dance's case and what are the upcoming hearing dates?

1. The English criminal matter: court and schedule

The BBC reports Hollie Dance as a defendant in criminal charges — including causing grievous bodily harm with intent, dangerous driving and possession of a weapon for the discharge of a noxious liquid or gas — and identifies Southend Crown Court as the forum where she has appeared, noting that the defendants were due to appear for another preliminary hearing in January and that a trial was provisionally fixed for 29 September ^[1]. Those are the concrete scheduling items published: an unspecified preliminary hearing in January and a provisional trial date of 29 September ^[1]. The available coverage does not publish the precise January hearing date or identify the year attached to the September trial beyond the provisional fixture in the BBC piece ^[1], so the record must be read as indicating a January preliminary hearing and a 29 September trial window without additional calendar detail in the sources.

2. The Delaware civil action: different court, different issue

Separately, a BBC report covering bereaved parents taking legal action against ByteDance/TikTok states that a lawsuit — in which Hollie Dance is named alongside other parents — was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, and that the first scheduled court event with TikTok was described as a Motion to Dismiss hearing ^[2]. The plaintiffs’ claim in that filing, as reported, accuses ByteDance of “engineered addiction-by-design” and seeks to hold the company responsible for children’s deaths; TikTok has moved to dismiss on grounds including lack of jurisdiction and First Amendment protections for hosted third‑party content ^[2]. The BBC story specifically frames this as a Delaware civil case and identifies the Motion to Dismiss as the initial hearing type, but it does not provide a date for that Delaware hearing in the excerpt provided ^[2].

3. Context from prior litigation involving Dance

Reporting from earlier years shows Hollie Dance also at the center of high-profile appellate litigation concerning her son Archie, including multiple hearings in the High Court and Court of Appeal in 2022 over life‑support decisions; the Court of Appeal held urgent hearings and ultimately dismissed appeals brought by his parents ^{[3] [4]}. Those historical proceedings are separate from the criminal charges and the Delaware civil suit and are relevant only as background to Dance’s prior engagement with the English courts ^{[3] [4]}. The BBC’s present coverage distinguishes the matters: the criminal charges are before Southend Crown Court, the civil claim is in Delaware’s Superior Court, and the earlier medical-ethics appeals were in the English High Court and Court of Appeal ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

4. What the sources do and do not say — limitations and next steps

The BBC articles used here state the forum names and the hearing types and give a provisional trial date (Southend Crown Court: January preliminary hearing, trial provisionally fixed for 29 September; Superior Court of Delaware: Motion to Dismiss hearing) but do not publish an exact calendar date in January for the Southend preliminary hearing, nor a calendar date for the Delaware motion in the excerpts provided ^{[1] [2]}. To get definitive hearing dates and any judge or courtroom listings, the public case docket for Southend Crown Court (or the relevant criminal case list at the local court) and the Delaware Superior Court docket should be consulted, because the BBC reports the scheduling items but lacks full docket-level dates in these summaries ^{[1] [2]}.