Full coverage: Courts

More than 140 investors in Irish forest fraud Arden Forestry have received letters telling them they are in line for a €2m payout following a global asset chase by the liquidator. But was this case just one part of a larger playbook for serious overseas criminals?

The stake of Petrel Resources’ largest shareholders remains frozen by a court order, but the company and its new investors have agreed to put the dispute down to an alleged fraudulent loan default triggered by a US lender – and plough ahead.

A stake held by businessman Roger Tamraz and his associates at the centre of a dispute between Clontarf oil explorer Petrel Resources and its new majority owners remains frozen by the courts as allegations of an unlawful loan default emerge.

A five-year legal feud, two warring shareholders, one exclusive private hospital. After a failed challenge to the very existence of the Commercial Court, has the tide gone out for founding surgeon Joseph Sheehan?

Petrel Resources’ share price has been on a rollercoaster since it unveiled takeover plans by investors with deep connections in the Middle East. Less than six months into their honeymoon, the partners are lawyering up.

In 2007, Athlone Town FC unveiled a state-of-the-art stadium built with lottery funds and a mystery donor. Then the row over ownership began - and it continues to work its way through the courts. Just how did it come to this? And what happens next?

Some 16 months after being installed by the High Court, inspectors are preparing to move to Phase Two of the investigation into an alleged significant data breach at the media publisher.

The establishment of the Court of Appeal liberated Ireland's highest court from the burden of workaday appeals. The result has been quietly transformative.

The former Anglo Irish Bank obtained startling evidence that helped force the Quinn family settle their mammoth dispute with the bank last year. That evidence has never been made public. Until now.

Feted as the racehorse owner behind Cheltenham winner, Kicking King, Dublin businessman Conor Clarkson reaped the rewards of a fortune made in property. Then he lost it all. On the verge of bankruptcy, he was thrown a lifeline. This is the story of how the rescue deal fell apart.