Liberty Insurance and Albert Reynolds-founded C&D Foods are locking horns with Zurich Insurance in new High Court proceedings.
Barristers conduct criminal trials every day to high standards — their pay rates should reflect that, writes Tony McGillicuddy, a senior counsel joining colleagues for a series of strikes at courthouses in July.
The High Court is tackling the contradictions between national and local planning policy while addressing a challenge brought by neighbours to a proposed Galway residential development on a site owned by the Comer brothers.
A Swedish man failed in his appeal to stop the Criminal Assets Bureau transferring more than €600,000, linked to alleged credit card scams, to the State. The saga has been running for over 20 years.
Eoin O’Shea, an accountant, barrister and the share trustee of 82.5 per cent of the shares of QuinnBet, is being sued by Sean Quinn junior and his wife Karen.
The trial of NFL football hero OJ Simpson was one of biggest stories from America in the past 30 years. His death last week leaves many dark areas around the crimes he was never found guilty of having committed.
A provisional liquidator was urgently appointed last week to protect creditors' interest in Clonmannon House, a property valued at circa €4 million. This Monday, the company was wound up following a petition by a Chinese investor.
Clonmannon was a Co Wicklow estate with 44 bungalows, ready to be transformed into a retirement village. Chinese investors put millions of euro into the project. Now they are trying to pull the plug on the business over alleged debts and fears of asset dissipation.
The CCPC has issued proceedings against Phonewatch and its subsidiary Homesecure as it conducts an investigation into the home alarm industry.
The judicial review case, believed to concern a Data Protection Commission inquiry into Google's user account creation process, is the latest in a wave of big tech cases against the body.
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