Clayton settles legal action against bank and accountantsNo details were outlined of settlementWed Feb 12 2014 - 01:00
U2’s Adam Clayton settles case against bank and firm of accountantsLegal action follows misappropriation of funds by personal assistantTue Feb 11 2014 - 16:05
Nama secures orders of nearly €20m over unpaid property loansJudgments against two businessmenMon Feb 10 2014 - 22:03
Legal action to stop UPC users downloading illegallyUPC argue a graduated response proposal raised a ‘serious question of freedom of expression and public policy’Mon Feb 10 2014 - 17:19
Creche staff may see RTÉ footageSupreme Court dismisses broadcaster’s appeal against a High Court rulingSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Supreme Court reserves judgment in surrogacy caseCourt told State’s position is that a child’s legal mother is the person who gives birthThu Feb 06 2014 - 14:35
Woman sues retired garda over alleged rapeMan says sexual relationship was consensualThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:00
Agencies urge broad definition of motherhood in Supreme Court surrogacy caseGenetic mother of twins not recognised by State, despite granting of legal status to fatherThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:00
‘Unreasonable’ for the State to argue for adoptionGenetic parents of twins born to a surrogate wish to be recognised as their legal parentsWed Feb 05 2014 - 15:08
Supreme Court told motherhood must be based on geneticsGenetic parents of twins born to a surrogate should be recognised, court hearsTue Feb 04 2014 - 22:50
High Court overturns financial ombudsman’s ruling on alleged adviceCouple wins oral hearing in dispute with Ulster Bank on property consortium lossesTue Feb 04 2014 - 20:12
Surrogate must be registered as twins’ legal mother, Supreme Court toldState seeks overturning of ruling that genetic mother could be named on birth certificateTue Feb 04 2014 - 06:40
State argues surrogate is ‘legal mother’ of twinsSupreme Court told that motherhood involves pregnancy and cannot in law be based on geneticsMon Feb 03 2014 - 22:09
Foley loses legal action against receiver of pubsSean Foley had asked the court to put a charge over the sale proceeds of the premisesFri Jan 31 2014 - 20:49
Sisters of Charity seek to halt action for damages citing no record of alleged rapistWoman says she was raped by a groundsman employed in Magdalene LaundryFri Jan 31 2014 - 17:39
McKillen ‘coy’ over bid for own loansBarclay brothers seek earliest possible hearing of pre-trial applicationsFri Jan 31 2014 - 00:50
Appeal to halt AIB pursuit of €26m failsSupreme Court agrees that Lynch gave ‘hopelessly confused’ evidenceFri Jan 31 2014 - 00:01
McKillen being ‘coy’ on whether he bid for IBRC loans, court toldProperty investor is seeking to prevent loans being sold to billionaire Barclay brothersThu Jan 30 2014 - 17:11
Lynch loses court bid to halt AIB pursuit over €26m debtProminent businessman fails in Supreme Court case against bankThu Jan 30 2014 - 16:06
Dublin mayor fails in appeal against ethics rulingOisin Quinn found to have inadvertently breached legislationWed Jan 29 2014 - 18:54
Payment over Brendan Smyth abuse ‘final’, court toldBishop asks High Court to halt caseWed Jan 29 2014 - 17:25
State seeks documents from Bailey in damages actionRecourse sought over handling of inquiry into murder of Sophie Toscan du PlantierWed Jan 29 2014 - 09:31
Teenage Traveller asks Court to uphold challenge to school’s admission policyFamily’s lawyer says if John Stokes wins he could be awarded compensationTue Jan 28 2014 - 21:00
Action by teacher against Twitter resolvedWoman had alleged she was the subject of grossly defamatory and offensive sexually related pictures and tweetsTue Jan 28 2014 - 12:38
High Court extends order to feed anorexia sufferer until FridayCourt hears woman is making ‘monumental strides’ after being fed through a tubeTue Jan 28 2014 - 11:36
Man gets €315,000 over abuse by Marist BrotherCase involved ‘recovered memory’ of sexual abuse dating from 1969Sat Jan 25 2014 - 01:01
Trial of man for rape of girl (8) when he was aged 15 stoppedJudge rules applicant entitled to order on grounds of loss of right to be tried as a childFri Jan 24 2014 - 17:26
Man awarded €315,000 over sex abuse by Marist BrotherMr Justice Iarfhlaith O’Neill rejects denials of abuse at Sligo school between 1969 and 1972Fri Jan 24 2014 - 16:50
O’Brien ‘entitled’ to be defendant in licence case, judge toldBusinessman is ‘best placed to rebut allegations' phone licence process was unfairThu Jan 23 2014 - 23:05
Century Homes founder to pay €2.7mMcCaughey is disputing liabilities for additional €5mThu Jan 23 2014 - 20:04
Supreme Court to hear State’s appeal over surrogacy rulingCourt to decide if media permitted ahead of landmark appeal next monthThu Jan 23 2014 - 19:02
Costs urged against Joan Collins TD on promissory note appealHigh Court told decision to appeal against rejection of challenge would raise State’s costsThu Jan 23 2014 - 18:46
Magpie Inn in Dalkey secures High Court protectionCompany operating south Co Dublin pub and bistro cites cash flow issues and dispute with its landlordThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Postal worker settles bullying action against An PostMan said he was stared and glared at, intimidated and stalked by colleague in DublinWed Jan 22 2014 - 19:33
Bloxham creditors may get 40% of what is owedChallenge to stock exchange membership revocation may yield extra €6m for brokeWed Jan 22 2014 - 01:00
State to pay most of Marie Fleming’s legal costsFleming had asked Supreme Court for an order for costs, despite failing in her actionTue Jan 21 2014 - 10:47
Quinn Finance settles case against McPartlandFormer Seán Quinn company had wanted to recover €6.1m from Quinn son-in-lawMon Jan 20 2014 - 20:01
IBRC trying to ‘grind down’ Quinn family, court hearsCounsel claims bank seeking to make Quinns bankrupt and unable to pursue caseFri Jan 17 2014 - 17:02
Hickey pharmacy group drops IBRC actionLegal action had challenged the constitutionality of sections of IBRC ActFri Jan 17 2014 - 01:03
Ex-heads of spreadbet firm lose bid to halt bankruptcyMarketspreads was suspended by Central Bank in April 2012Thu Jan 16 2014 - 10:18
Court withdraws treatment from brain-damaged babyYoung mother of baby died shortly after delivering infant on Tuesday, High Court hearsThu Jan 16 2014 - 08:03
Hospital secures order allowing it withdraw life-sustaining treatment from babyMother was 39 weeks pregnant and in cardiac arrest when she arrived at hospitalWed Jan 15 2014 - 22:11
Sligo County Council asks court to reconsider part of Lissadell judgmentChief Justice agrees to defer court’s decision on costs while it considers the Council’s requestWed Jan 15 2014 - 11:51
Car dealer Patrick McCabe fails in bid to stop fast-tracking of €16m judgmentJudge rejects claim businessman’s ‘poor literacy’ should delay IBRC’s caseWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:01
Anglo Irish Bank criminal cases could run for several years, High Court toldJudge extends investigation for another year, not the three years sought by ODCETue Jan 14 2014 - 06:36
Quinns fail in bid to ‘ring-fence’ assets from the StateHigh Court refuses injunction stopping IBRC moving assets to NamaFri Dec 20 2013 - 15:58
Former deputy principal loses psychiatric assessment caseJudge queries why someone did not shout ‘stop’ and urge mediation before lengthy litigationFri Dec 20 2013 - 10:36
Permanent TSB allowed to join in key court actionSupreme Court decision enables bank to participate in recapitalisation caseFri Dec 20 2013 - 10:11
Challenge to son’s vaccination failsCourt says mother does not have superior rights to father, who wants son vaccinatedFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:02
