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A man who was awarded €96,403 in personal injury proceedings against Tallaght Hospital has had his award upheld by the Supreme Court. The hospital argued that the claim was statute barred in circumstances where the hospital’s omission to carry out a CT scan occurred in 2007, and the perso

A detective imprisoned for harassing a State solicitor by sending abusive letters and emails has had her sentence suspended. Eve Doherty, 51, had the remainder of her three-year sentence suspended by the Court of Appeal.

New powers have been given to the Residential Tenancies Board to deal with improper conduct by landlords under the Residential Tenancies Act, the Irish Examiner reports. The board can now investigate and sanction landlords directly in cases where residential tenancy law is being breached in respect

Pictured (L-R): Karl Redmond, Jacqueline McAleese, Roger McMillan, and Leigh Linton Carson McDowell has today announced that claims expert Karl Redmond has joined the firm as a consultant in its Dublin office.

The mother of a Co Down schoolboy who died after he was given a combined measles and rubella vaccine has suffered “interminable uncertainty and delay” over a second inquest, a High Court judge has said. Anne Coulter has been waiting for seven years for a new hearing following the death o

The Serious Fraud Office has fined a subsidiary of Serco Group £19.2 million. The SFO announced that a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Serco Geografix Limited (SGL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Serco Group, has been approved in principle by Mr Justice William Davis.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft has opened for business in Belfast. This is the second new office the firm has launched this year, having opened in Paris in January.

Trinity College Dublin has awarded its prestigious Nael G. Bunni Medal to Michael Mulcahy SC at a recent ceremony in the College. The medal was awarded for outstanding course work in the renowned Trinity College Dublin Construction Law and Contract Administration Postgraduate Diploma Course.

Chief Justice Frank Clark delivered a speech at a Lawyers Against Homelessness charity CPD event. He talked about various matters including: keeping up with changes in the law; the number of judges and judicial appointments; court resources and IT; and access to justice.

A Jewish housing association that fended off a discrimination challenge earlier this year has prevailed again after the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's judgment. Agudas Israel Housing Association (AIHA), which provides accommodation exclusively for Jewish Orthodox families, defeated an

Arrests for eel-smuggling have rocketed by 50 per cent in Europe following a concerted effort by enforcement agencies. Eels are highly sought after in China and elsewhere in East Asia and about 350 million are trafficked out of the EU every year.

A woman who was fifteen when she is alleged to have been involved in a violent attack in which a seventeen-year-old boy was stabbed and beaten, has failed to halt the further prosecution of criminal charges pending against her. Finding that there was no culpable or blameworthy prosecutorial delay, M

Matheson has announced the appointment of Sharon Daly, who is widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s leading corporate litigators, as head of its London office. Ms Daly has re-located from Dublin to London. Speaking from the firm’s London office, Managing Partner Michael Jackson said: &

A journalist has been fined €2,500 by a Central Criminal Court judge after he named one of the boys convicted of teenager Ana Kriegel's murder during a live radio broadcast. The radio station, Cork's Red FM, was fined €10,000.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has marked the entry into force today of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, by setting out its recommendations for key priority actions from the State. The Commission, as Ireland’s nat