Full coverage: Courts

The Irish subsidiary of Novartis, the global pharma giant, has initiated legal proceedings against Accord Healthcare, the generic drugmaker.

In picturesque Waterville, a long-favoured holiday spot for golfers, one historic hotel fell behind the times. Its fate has now been decided in the High Court between a London businessman and a Kerry local.

An institutional landlord has issued High Court proceedings against Ireland’s largest supermarket chain. This is just the latest in a series of legal actions over the development of a Dublin shopping centre.

The HSE halted payments to the Mater Private amid concerns that it was being billed for hefty intercompany interest bills paid to a Luxembourg entity. The High Court has largely ruled in its favour.

Anchor tenant Dunnes Stores has opened a convenience store about half the size of the penalty box on a football pitch at Point Village, the High Court heard. The overall space is ten times bigger. Dunnes insists it is in line with its obligations.

After decades in business, the shareholders of a major truck distributor in Cork have fallen out. A founding family alleges other investors are trying to cut them off from staff and from the truck supplier in the Netherlands, but are expected to face a strong rebuttal in court.

The uber-wealthy don’t need to use convoluted tax schemes to reduce their tax liabilities – many simply move abroad. Instead, it is the layer just below them that use a range of schemes to wipe massive sums off their tax bills.

Yesterday, we revealed how the High Court had ruled against a major offshore tax scheme. Today, tax barrister and chartered accountant Eoin O’Shea picks through the detail of the judgement and analyses each of the questions that the court sought to answer.

For more than a decade, the Irish tax authority has sought to curb a complex tax scheme used by 231 high earners. The High Court has now ruled in Revenue's favour, and the judgement sheds new light on how the scheme operated.

Waterwipes is the number one baby wipe sold on Amazon in the US and Europe, but the Louth-based company behind the brand has found itself in a bit of a mess as decisions go against it in Europe and Britain.