Court Report

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Four TDs have brought a High Court challenge against the Ceann Comhairle's decision not to allow a new bill due to be debated in the Dáil. The action has been brought by opposition TDs Brid Smith, Richard Boyd Barrett, Gino Kenny and Paul Murphy against Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fe

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Gardaí are continuing to investigate a violent incident in the Four Courts earlier this summer, when the defendant in a defamation action was attacked and injured by several individuals. London-based Nigerian businesswoman Rosala Uvbi Mku-Atu claims she was defamed and threatened in social me

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A senior judge has said that the second Special Criminal Court will be made "full use of" until it is removed by legislation, following weekend reports of its suspension amid falling case numbers. Presiding judge Mr Justice Tony Hunt made the remarks yesterday in the course of a bail hearing. He sai

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Lawyers for a man acquitted of rape last year have told a court that his legal entitlement to anonymity is being breached by Google search results of his name. Mícheál O'Higgins SC told Mr Justice Michael White that when his client's name is placed into the Google search engine the res

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A newspaper editor has been fined €4,500 after being found guilty of contempt of court for a front-page headline and article that "posed a real risk" to the trial of two boys convicted of murdering 14-year-old Anastasia Kriégel. Sebastian Hamilton, editor of the Irish Daily Mail, must pa

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Struck-off solicitor Michael Lynn has lost his latest legal challenge ahead of a trial next year for alleged theft of almost €30 million. Mr Lynn, 50, is due to stand trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court next year on 21 counts of stealing the money from seven financial institutions.

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A detective found guilty of harassing a State solicitor by sending abusive letters and emails has lost an appeal against her conviction. Eve Doherty, 50, was found guilty by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of harassing State solicitor Elizabeth Howlin between September 2011 and March 2013. M

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A woman who tried to process a bogus personal injury claim because she needed money to cover the costs of her and her husband's funerals has been given a three-year suspended jail sentence. Judge Pauline Codd, sitting in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, said fraudulent claims lead to increased insuran

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