Solicitor Gerald Kean, who last week got €160,000 damages from a High Court jury after it found he was defamed in an Irish Daily Star article, has settled an additional claim for breach of privacy arising from the article.

A High Court jury, in a majority verdict, has awarded €160,000 damages to solicitor Gerald Kean after finding he was defamed in a newspaper article concerning a visit by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to his Dublin office.

A jury will return to the High Court tomorrow to resume considering its verdict on proceedings by solicitor Gerald Kean alleging he was defamed in a newspaper article concerning a visit by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to his Dublin office.

An officer who spearheaded a Criminal Assets Bureau investigation into assets of the Kinahan crime gang has told a High Court jury a file provided to CAB by solicitor Gerald Kean led to the seizure of a Dublin man's house as the proceeds of crime.

It was "fair and reasonable" to publish an article stating officers of the Criminal Assets Bureau called to solicitor Gerald Kean’s Dublin office as part of the bureau's probe into the Kinahan crime gang, journalist Michael O’Toole has told a High Court jury.

A solicitor who was working in Gerald Kean's office when it was visited by officers of the Criminal Assets Bureau in March 2016 has told a High Court jury she was "horrified" by a newspaper article concerning that visit.

Solicitor Gerald Kean has told a High Court jury he only learned that a man wounded during the Regency Hotel shooting was a client of his practice when officers of the Criminal Assets Bureau called to his office.

Solicitor Gerald Kean has told a High Court jury he was “shell-shocked” by a front-page newspaper article concerning a visit by members of the Criminal Assets Bureau to his Dublin office three years ago.

A student has withdrawn his Supreme Court appeals against various newspapers arising from reports on his dispute over a YouTube video clip falsely accusing him of evading a taxi fare in Dublin at a time when he was in Japan.

Salary cuts and redundancies will form part of a wide-ranging cost savings exercise at the Irish Daily Star, the newspaper’s owners have announced.

The editor of the Irish Daily Star has been suspended after its shareholders agreed to a joint investigation into publication of topless photographs of Kate Middleton.

Independent Star Ltd., publishers of the Star Sunday newspaper which was found to have defamed a convicted child porn user, has been fined €40,000 for contempt of court.

The Star Sunday newspaper deliberately repeated false and defamatory statements about a self-confessed and convicted child porn user, a judge said yesterday.

The High Court has ruled there was no breach, in reports and broadcasts by three media organisations, of the right to privacy of two children who was sexually abused.

Two young victims of sexual abuse have claimed before the High Court that details contained in media reports of their attacker's conviction for abusing them resulted in their loss of their anonymity and breached their constitutional right to privacy.

Independent Star Ltd, publishers of The Irish Daily Star and its sister title The Irish Daily Star Sunday today reported operating profits €6.828m for the year ended December 26, 2008, down 6.8% on 2007 performance.

SUNDAY WORLD crime editor Paul Williams was among a number of journalists, newspaper editors and media organisations fined €60,000, plus legal costs, by a High Court judge.

THE murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier was in the early stages of pregnancy at the time of her brutal death.

The seven newspapers accused of libelling English journalist Ian Bailey launched a full-blooded defence of the action today by producing diaries written by the plaintiff and telling him that he was in Cork Circuit Court to prove his innocence.

An Englishman who has been shunned in West Cork and referred to as “the murderer” has commenced a defamation action against seven different newspapers.

The defamation trial taken by a man who was once described as a suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier opened at Cork Circuit Court today.