Court Report

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

Dozens of damages claims brought by Irish hauliers against Europe's biggest truck manufacturers who allegedly engaged in anti-competitive practices will most likely be heard in 2020. The claims arise out a determination by the European Commission in 2016 which found that five major truck manufacture

A lay litigant yesterday attempted to arrest a High Court judge, a solicitor and a barrister at the Four Courts. Stephen Manning, a candidate in the 2016 general election, asked Mr Justice Michael MacGrath, as well as a solicitor for the DPP and a barrister, to accompany him to a Garda station where

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

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

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

There were violent scenes requiring the intervention of gardaí and security in the Four Courts yesterday, when the defendant in a defamation action was allegedly attacked and injured by a group of individuals who attended court. The individuals alleged to be involved had attended an action br

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal based on the "unusual" argument that a dependency on alcohol can diminish a person's responsibility for murder such that juries should be allowed to find them guilty of manslaughter. The “unusual” argument was made in the case of Mic

A judge in the Court of Appeal has said it was "almost inconceivable" that one of Ireland's most experienced criminal trial judges would simply forget to instruct the jury on the presumption of innocence in a rape trial. Mr Justice John Edwards yesterday quashed the conviction of Mohamed Okda, 33, w

The superior courts recognise that recent challenges to the interpretation of drink driving legislation contain many arguments that have the appearance of being "cynical", according to a senior judge. Giving judgment on a drink driver's claim that he had the "right to be informed" that breathalyser

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

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.

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

Lawyers for a convicted child rapist have told a High Court judge that rape victims are subject to criminal prosecution if they publish their own identity. Last March, a jury convicted a 41-year-old Wicklow man of repeated sexual attacks on a neighbouring child when she was aged approximately nine.

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