Supreme Court finds in favour of tribunalMajority judgment: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Mahon tribunal to further inquire into allegations made against…Sat Mar 31 2007 - 01:00
Inquiry would represent 'coarsening' of standardsMinority judgment: The Mahon tribunal has treated property developer Owen O'Callaghan unfairly to date and, as presently constituted…Sat Mar 31 2007 - 01:00
Judge says tribunal has right to seek injunctionThe "serious" and "sleazy" leaking over years to the media of documents circulated by the Mahon tribunal in advance of public…Fri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
Mahon tribunal refused banning orderThe Supreme Court has refused, by a three to two majority, to give the Mahon planning tribunal an order banning publication by…Fri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
Court clears way for Christian Brother to challenge abuse lawsThe Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Christian Brother to bring a challenge to the constitutionality of laws which provide…Thu Mar 29 2007 - 01:00
Court orders Hibernian to halt dismissalInsurance giant Hibernian has been ordered not to dismiss the group's human resources directorThu Mar 29 2007 - 01:00
Supreme Court grants 'Lusitania' owner divinglicence to explore wreckThe American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania has secured a licence to carry out a $2 million (€1Wed Mar 28 2007 - 01:00
Firm seeks to overturn Labour Court pay decisionA pharmaceutical company has brought legal proceedings aimed at overturning a Labour Court decision directing it to pay higher…Tue Mar 27 2007 - 01:00
Auctioneer accused of bullying in land disputeThe wife of multi-millionaire businessman JP McManus has brought High Court proceedings over lands intended to be used as a driveway…Tue Mar 27 2007 - 01:00
'Times' case adjourned until summerA High Court action over the disclosure by The Irish Times that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern received cash from businessmen when he…Mon Mar 26 2007 - 01:00
Autistic boy loses case on State fundingThe parents of an autistic boy were clearly devastated yesterday after losing a test High Court action aimed at securing State…Sat Mar 24 2007 - 00:00
Taylor and wife given five-year ban as company directorsThe founder of the collapsed Taylor group of five finance companies has claimed before the High Court that other directors of…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Court to rule on autism teaching test caseA decision by the High Court today on a test case aimed at securing a specific form of education for a five-year-old autistic…Fri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
Hardiman says innocent man 'perjured into prison'The State authorities conceded only after "a long struggle" that Frank Shortt was the victim of "the worst-known oppression of…Thu Mar 22 2007 - 00:00
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
Supreme Court increases Shortt awards to €4.7mA 14-year nightmare for wrongly jailed Co Donegal nightclub owner Frank Shortt has ended with a €4Thu 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
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
'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
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
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
€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
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
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
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
