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Dublin 4 neighbours in legal row over future homes worth €15m

Solicitor and neighbour in affluent Dublin suburb are locked into High Court battle over extent of the homeowner’s right of way

Laneway on Shrewsbury Park, Ballsbridge. A dispute has arisen between Dublin 4 neighbours over a right of way. The dispute is holding up a development worth more than €15 million, claims one of the parties. Picture: Fergal Phillips

A solicitor has accused his Dublin 4 neighbour of attempting to frustrate the development of houses worth more than €15 million in a legal row that centres on the homeowner’s insistence that they are entitled to turn both left and right on a lane outside their house.

Larry Fenelon, a partner and head of dispute resolution at Ogier Leman, is the registered owner of a laneway at the rear of a number of houses on ...