Full coverage: Courts

For the fifth time in one month, extensive High Court time was devoted to sorting out the rights of sea users under what the judge described as “a somewhat obscure licensing system”.

Decades of neglect have left many regional courts in disrepair, impacting access to justice and sparking fears of "legal deserts". As practitioners campaign to save them, the Courts Service is trying to balance preservation with consolidation of its estate.

Businessman and Paddy McKillen associate Ronnie Delany sued the Al Thanis and the Maybourne Hotels group over an alleged "blackballing” in the wake of a wider falling out between the Qatari and McKillen camps.

A Geneva banker and Dublin wealth manager Juerg von Geitz were introduced in 2009. They concocted a money-making idea involving Rothschild's bank. But it went sour and a legal "campaign of harassment" ensued over almost two decades.

Surprisingly, parties to a Libyan aircraft leasing agreement chose Ireland as their preferred jurisdiction in the event of a dispute. But when a dispute arose, matters weren't that simple.

The HR technology multinational Deel has offered a US court explanations for payments to an Irish employee of its rival Rippling, which is alleging corporate espionage took place in Dublin.

Lawyers for the liquidators of the BlackBee group say founder David O'Shea has so far failed to engage. He is now facing "very serious questions" around where client monies went and supposed client investments that don’t appear to have been made.

Ryan’s on Camden Street is a well-known bar in Dublin. It has been refused a new drinks licence to extend its bar into adjoining premises after the gardaí argued to do so would “reward the bad behaviour of the applicant”.

The jailed solicitor argued that the orders to perfect title and aid a court sale of properties, found to have been sold to Michael Lynn in the 2000s without his legal interest being registered, risked prejudicing his upcoming appeal against his €18m theft conviction.

Recalled to give evidence, Gerard Lane accepted in a moment of anger he threatened Tinakilly House co-owner Denis Connolly that he would become the "partner from hell". However he denied this was motivating his case against his business partner.