Personal Finance

A High Court test case which would have significantly clarified the law around debt-for-equity personal insolvency arrangements has been struck out on a technicality. The case was brought by Start Mortgages against a personal insolvency arrangement approved in Trim Circuit Court, which saw a man's m

The definition of secured debt advanced by a Personal Insolvency Practitioner in the High Court clearly did not work when read in the context of the Insolvency Act 2012 as a whole. Stating that Personal Insolvency Practitioners were not required to “work miracles” to protect a debtor's p

A man who argued that a resulting or constructive trust arose due to his payment of his son’s premium for a mortgage protection policy, which remained unassigned after the property they bought together was re-mortgaged, has lost his claim against his son’s estate. Expressing regret that

The Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan SC, has publicly challenged the president of the High Court to explain why he has been removed from debt cases, the Irish Independent reports. Mr Justice Peter Kelly signed an order last month to remove debt cases from the master's list with effect from M