Full coverage: Courts

Eason faces a legal clash over rent arrears with a German fund as challenging trading conditions continue to prevail as a result of the pandemic.

From 1,000 cases in 2019, High Court debt enforcement actions by banks and vulture funds fell to fewer than 200 last year. Who is still suing borrowers in the middle of a pandemic, who is not – and what is coming next?

The sprawling case into the disappearance of a multi-million pension fund has raised a far-reaching question: what should a court do when a party ordered to produce documents is unable to do so because of an IT meltdown?

After months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, Paddy Byrne’s Victoria Homes has agreed a deal which resolved all outstanding issues with the Lotus Investment Group.

A pre-trial judgement reveals how companies controlled by deceased lawyer Mortimer Walters and developer JP Flannery clashed over the transfer of a multi-million software invention across low-tax jurisdictions – for just €100.

A minority family shareholder was accused in the High Court of going on a “wrecking mission” as Broderick's main stakeholder positioned itself as a steady hand on the tiller.

DWS is suing Gap and Champion Sports over missed rent as their stores remain closed, but the German landlord is not put off investing in Ireland: it has poured over half a billion euro into Dublin property in the past year alone.

The Supreme Court has refused leave for an appeal brought by businessman Denis O’Brien over new pleadings against him in the row over the award of the country’s second mobile phone license to the Esat Digifone consortium in 1996.

Disputes over retail property rents continue to escalate before the courts as Level 5 restrictions bite, this time opposing Boots and Paddy McKillen’s shopping centre vehicle.

Three years ago, a London firm specialising in environmental infrastructure deals connected a Cork solar company with UK investors in the billion-pound league. Now Amarenco is taking its advisors to court.