Legal Leading barrister Nessa Cahill nominated as High Court judge by governmentCahill has specialised in commercial litigation, judicial review and regulatory proceedings in her practice
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Claims that Nama was a success need to be taken with a mountain of salt State’s bad bank had a most arduous task in cleaning up Ireland’s broken banking system, but it had its many, many critics
Legal High Court asked to wind up BlackBee investment vehicleAn investor in City Quarter II’s social housing portfolio claimed that the firm was unable to pay its debts, over a year after funds were due to be returned
Legal Dublin jeweller reaches settlement with Italian diamond dealer after ‘bizarre’ dispute A High Court judge previously questioned whether the case involved “a woman scorned” in a row between Empress Fine Jewels and a diamond supplier
Housing Land Development Agency to ‘robustly’ defend planning for more than 850 homes in Dundrum An Bord Pleanála told the High Court this week it was conceding challenge taken by a developer
News Energy firm alleges 12 million litres of biofuel ‘missing’ in €27 million lawsuit against supplierCerta said it removed 5.8 million litres of fuel from a storage facility in Cork, but the whereabouts of more than 12 million of it remained unknown
Housing An Bord Pleanála concedes challenge to more than 850 homes in DundrumThe High Court has allowed a period of two weeks for the Land Development Agency to consider whether to continue defending the challenge
Legal Profile: Úna Ní Raifeartaigh - the new judge of the European Court of Human RightsNí Raifeartaigh was part of the prosecution against Anglo Irish Bank directors following the crash
Legal New guidelines reducing injury awards have legal effect, Supreme Court rules The landmark ruling came after a judicial review was taken by Waterford woman Bridget Delaney over a €3,000 award for an ankle injury
Life Vinyl inflation: Soaring record prices leave small producers in a spin The vinyl revival continues, but is it at the expense of loyal fans and independent artists
Legal Dermot Desmond succeeds in excluding Joseph Stiglitz evidence from Panama Papers defamation caseMr Justice Alexander Owens said use of corporate structures to avoid paying tax and hide wealth were within ‘common knowledge’ and therefore his evidence was not necessary
Legal Meath residents lodged appeals to bring Glenveagh ‘to heel’ in land negotiation, High Court hears Glenveagh Homes claimed that the appeals were designed to coerce a higher price in a land sale
Courts Court sides with insurer in €30m legal row over Michael Flatley’s Castlehyde estateRiverdance star lost his bid to stop an insurance company cancelling the cover on his Cork mansion
Legal Johnny Ronan accuses lender of conspiracy to ‘stifle’ legal actionsRonan Group Real Estate is taking a High Court case against Fortress Investments Group, its junior lender on a portfolio of high-value Dublin assets
Courts Ian Guider: Michael Lynn was a crook and liar, but the system was wide open for him to do what he didMayo-native solicitor became the poster boy for Celtic Tiger rogues who sought to game the banks
Pharma Bristol Myers Squibb to appeal High Court ruling striking down patent on $12bn drugCourt recently invalidated the patent associated with Eliquis, the US pharma giants drug to reduce blood clots
Courts Almost €1m in examiner and legal fees sought after failed plan to rescue Mac Interiors In papers filed in the High Court, the examiner said that his team spent 1,623 hours on the proposed scheme to save the firm
Courts Defendant applies for removal from Michael Flatley €30m Castlehyde caseDavid Cushion claims he should never have been named as a defendant in the first place and that Flatley said in recent weeks that he would be removed
Courts Max Schrems added to Meta’s €1.2bn case against Ireland’s data watchdog Case relates to Meta’s appeal over the DPC’s decision to fine Facebook a record €1.2 billion and to halt data transfers from Europe to the US
Courts Sipo misinterpreted its own laws in decision not to investigate Leo Varadkar leak, court hears The decision is currently being challenged by People before Profit TD Paul Murphy