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Full coverage: Courts

“If you don’t get into my car, I will take that as you saying to me ‘F*** you’”

Some 23 brave former students of Terenure College sent the man who had sexually abused them to prison. Tom Lyons, a student at Terenure College while John McClean was a teacher and rugby coach there, tells a dark story of children betrayed by a prestigious school and religious order.

Tom Lyons
20th Feb, 2021 - 21 min read

Media manoeuvres: Collateral attack on INM inspectors fails

Former INM chairman Leslie Buckley loses his High Court challenge to revoke the appointment of inspectors to the media group in 2018.

Francesca Comyn
15th Feb, 2021 - 3 min read

High street rent rows: A third landlord pursues bookseller Eason

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.

Francesca Comyn
29th Jan, 2021 - 2 min read

Debt enforcement lawsuits fell 82% last year – but the debts have not gone away

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?

Thomas Hubert
25th Jan, 2021 - 2 min read

“All company data was lost”: the cyber attack in the discovery row between the Nolan haulage family and its pension advisers

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?

Thomas Hubert
4th Dec, 2020 - 6 min read

Confirmed: Victoria Homes agrees peace deal with Israeli financier

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.

Ian Kehoe
27th Nov, 2020 - 2 min read

From Malta to Andorra and Delaware: the trials and tribulations of a $54m patent battle

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.

Thomas Hubert
27th Nov, 2020 - 6 min read

Uncharted waters: Broderick’s contentious examinership battle nears the finish line

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.

Francesca Comyn
26th Nov, 2020 - 6 min read

Deutsche Bank has quietly built a €700m Irish property empire. Now it’s going to court do defend it

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.

Thomas Hubert
20th Nov, 2020 - 3 min read

Denis O’Brien denied a Supreme Court appeal in long-running Esat case

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.

Francesca Comyn
6th Nov, 2020 - 5 min read
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