Nightclub owner awarded increased damagesThe family and lawyers of Co Donegal nightclub-owner Frank Shortt have welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to increase the …Thu Mar 22 2007 - 00:00
Court finds Hobbs acted responsibly as directorThe High Court has refused to make restriction orders against television personality Eddie Hobbs and two other directors of companies…Wed Mar 21 2007 - 00:00
Former NIB director disqualified for 9 yearsA former executive director of National Irish Bank, Barry Seymour, has been disqualified by the High Court from involvement in…Wed Mar 21 2007 - 00:00
One51 takes 5.64% stake in ICGOne51, the waste and infrastructure group headed by Philip Lynch, has taken a 5.64 per cent stake in Irish Continental Group.Sat Mar 17 2007 - 00:00
Case dismissed against nuns and health boardClaims by a woman that she was badly treated in unmarried mothers homes run by a religious order, and that it facilitated the…Sat Mar 17 2007 - 00:00
Court challenge to begging law succeedsA Dublin man has won his High Court claim that a 19th-century law prohibiting begging in a public place is unconstitutional because…Fri Mar 16 2007 - 00:00
Planning board urged to reopen landfill hearingA High Court judge has "strongly recommended" that An Bord Pleanála reopens an oral hearing into a proposed landfill development…Thu Mar 15 2007 - 00:00
'Irish Times' editor defends articleThe editor of The Irish Times , Geraldine Kennedy, has said in High Court documents that it is "a matter of legitimate and significant…Tue Mar 13 2007 - 00:00
Disclosure of sources 'not in the public interest'An Irish Times report that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern had received payments from businessmen while he was minister for finance in…Tue Mar 13 2007 - 00:00
Councils must grant compliance certsIn an important decision relating to social and affordable housing obligations, the High Court has declared that local authorities…Sat Mar 10 2007 - 00:00
Tara attempt to exclude pension benefits failsThe High Court has rejected an attempt by Tara Mines to exclude up to 80 disabled former miners from certain substantial pension…Sat Mar 10 2007 - 00:00
€250,000 for garda with stress disorderThe High Court has awarded €250,000 compensation to a Garda who was "immeasurably" traumatised as a result of finding the bodies…Fri Mar 09 2007 - 00:00
Typing error in will led to challenge by nephewA typographical error which occurred during the typing of a will in a solicitor's office led to the will stating that one-fifth…Thu Mar 08 2007 - 00:00
Former Team workers accuse Aer Lingus of breaching court rulingAer Lingus has been accused before the High Court of breaching a Supreme Court decision requiring it to treat 44 workers with…Wed Mar 07 2007 - 00:00
Original sentence overly lenient, court rulesThe Court of Criminal Appeal has jailed a former spiritual director of Gormanston College, Co Meath, who sexually abused four…Tue Mar 06 2007 - 00:00
Cari Foundation accused of negligenceA father has applied for the directors of the Cari (Children at Risk in Ireland) Foundation to be brought before the High Court…Tue Mar 06 2007 - 00:00
Decision to strike doctor from register is upheldA retired Cork doctor who carried out internal examinations of women patients "for his own perverse purposes", made a pornographic…Sat Mar 03 2007 - 00:00
Man remanded in custody released by High CourtA man who was unlawfully jailed by a District Court judge earlier yesterday, despite being told by gardaí that he was the sole…Sat Mar 03 2007 - 00:00
Corporate enforcement director seeks to cross-examine LaceyThe Director of Corporate Enforcement is seeking to cross-examine former National Irish Bank (NIB)executive Jim Lacey in a High…Fri Mar 02 2007 - 00:00
'Very ill' man unlawfully held in psychiatric careThe High Court has ruled that a "very ill" man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia is being unlawfully detained in a psychiatric…Thu Mar 01 2007 - 00:00
Woman claims no consent for adoptionsA religious order has asked the High Court to halt a case against it by a woman who alleges she was badly treated in unmarried…Wed Feb 28 2007 - 00:00
Mahon tribunal's case against 'Irish Times' adjournedThe High Court has adjourned for two weeks a bid by the Mahon tribunal to compel Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy and public…Tue Feb 27 2007 - 00:00
Lawyers lose challenge over files for legal aid clientsTwo solicitors with the Legal Aid Board have lost a High Court challenge to a board decision formalising a practice of allowing…Sat Feb 24 2007 - 00:00
State not liable for pregnant woman's injuriesThe State cannot be held liable for serious injuries sustained by a pregnant young woman on the basis that a Garda patrol car…Sat Feb 24 2007 - 00:00
Jury to consider whether hotelier was defamedA jury will today consider its verdict in a High Court action for damages by an elderly Waterford city hotelier over a Sunday…Fri Feb 23 2007 - 00:00
Time delay issue raised in Neary caseFive judges of the Supreme Court are to be convened to decide an important legal issue which has arisen in proceedings by Co …Fri Feb 23 2007 - 00:00
'Sunday World' sued over brothel at hotel slurAn 80-year-old Waterford city hotelier has told the High Court that a newspaper article which suggested he was running a brothel…Thu Feb 22 2007 - 00:00
AIB wins court judgment of €10mAllied Irish Banks plc has secured judgment from the High Court of more than €10 million against a family and their company for…Tue Feb 20 2007 - 00:00
€100,000 costs estimated over GAA photoA continuing High Court battle resulting from a €6,500 fine on a newspaper, over its publication of a photograph of a GAA player…Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00
NIB 'maverick' managers behind scandal, court toldThe "main perpetrators" of wrongdoing relating to bogus non-resident accounts in National Irish Bank in the 1990s were certain…Fri Feb 16 2007 - 00:00
Murderer of schoolgirl loses appealA Co Galway man has lost on all grounds his appeal against his conviction for the murder and rape of a schoolgirl whose body …Thu Feb 15 2007 - 00:00
Ex-NIB manager opposes orderA retired regional manager with National Irish Bank is opposing a High Court bid by the director of corporate enforcement for…Wed Feb 14 2007 - 00:00
Refusal to transfer prisoner challengedA Portuguese man serving a life sentence for the murder of a trainee manager in Limerick's Jury's Inn hotel has brought a High…Tue Feb 13 2007 - 00:00
Widow challenges coroner's findingsA widowed mother of six has brought a High Court challenge to a coroner's "perverse" decision that the smoking of cannabis had…Tue Feb 13 2007 - 00:00
Surgeon 'quite happy' following sterilisation procedureA retired consultant who performed a sterilisation procedure on a mother of five, who later gave birth to two more children, …Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
Surgeon 'quite happy' following sterilisation procedureA retired consultant who performed a sterilisation procedure on a mother of five, who later gave birth to two more children, …Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
State seeks to halt consortiums' phone licence challengeThe State has asked the High Court to stop two consortiums who failed to secure the State's second mobile phone licence in 1995…Fri Feb 09 2007 - 00:00
Response of BTSB biochemist inadequate, court toldThe DPP has contemporary evidence from witnesses and documents indicating that the former principal biochemist in the Blood Transfusion…Fri Feb 09 2007 - 00:00
Court told of 'extraordinary' Garda hepatitis C case fileThe Garda file on the investigation into the deaths of 55 women who contracted hepatitis C from infected blood products was the…Thu Feb 08 2007 - 00:00
Undisclosed damages for brain injury at birthA High Court judge has described a severely disabled woman with cerebral palsy who is now pursuing a law degree as "the most …Thu Feb 08 2007 - 00:00
Two children born after 'sterilisation'A mother of seven children and her now estranged husband have brought a High Court action for damages after the woman gave birth…Wed Feb 07 2007 - 00:00
Man held for questioning over Swords 'tiger raid ' refused bailA man detained since last Friday in connection with the taking hostage last week of a bank official and his family in north Co…Tue Feb 06 2007 - 00:00
Dunnes accused of copying designsTwo UK-based women's clothing stores are suing Dunnes Stores for allegedly producing and selling "knock-off" copies of their …Tue Feb 06 2007 - 00:00
Foynes port directors granted injunctionA High Court judge has said there was "at least a coincidence in time" between the making of allegations against two directors…Sat Feb 03 2007 - 00:00
Abused woman entitled to sue State, court rulesA Dublin woman who claims gardaí failed to act on her complaints made when she was 12 years old that she had been raped and brutally…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
Ryanair wins Labour Court appealRyanair has won its Supreme Court challenge to the Labour Court's decision that there is "a trade dispute" between the airline…Fri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
Challenge to Tobacco Act abandonedA sudden decision yesterday by several tobacco companies and others to abandon their lengthy legal action over new laws restricting…Thu Feb 01 2007 - 00:00
Court stops prosecution of farmer on sex chargesA married farmer charged with sexual offences against a younger neighbour in the west of Ireland has secured a Supreme Court …Wed Jan 31 2007 - 00:00
Traveller family seeks second mobile homeThree severely disabled young Travellers, who suffer from a degenerative disease of the nervous system, are living with their…Wed Jan 31 2007 - 00:00
Newspaper seeks ruling on privacy issuesA newspaper which published a photograph of a GAA player in which his private parts were exposed is seeking a Supreme Court determination…Tue Jan 30 2007 - 00:00
