The man was described as having filthy feet and a rare nail disease not seen in Ireland in decades.

Resourcing our judiciary is necessary to arrive at a planning system that is fit for purpose, one that can deliver major investment and infrastructural projects, writes Sean Finlay

An Ennis solicitor stole €149,830 from 11 clients over a five-year period “in a robbing Peter to pay Paul’ enterprise, Ennis Circuit Court heard today.

A 'business consultant' has unreservedly apologised before the President of the High Court for remarks made in an e-mail about another judge.

The former chairman of Independent News and Media (INM), Leslie Buckley, has said he will fight any accusations levelled against him arising out of investigations into the company’s affairs.

The State and Referendum Commission are entitled to their legal costs, estimated at more than €200,000, of successfully opposing two separate bids to challenge the abortion referendum result, the President of the High Court has ruled.

The President of the High Court has approved arrangements governing access to documents to be used for an application by the State’s corporate watchdog for appointment of inspectors to Independent News and Media plc.

A judge has made orders permitting the continued tube feeding of a severely anorexic young woman who was admitted to hospital in a critical condition.

An intellectually disabled young man detained in hospital since November due to concerns about the serious effects of his persistent failure to take necessary medication is to be discharged into the community with supports.

Despite many explanations from medical and other professionals, the youth maintains there is nothing wrong with him and he does not have cancer, the court was told.

A doctor who exposed himself to a nurse and a teenage patient in two separate incidents has been struck off the medical register by the High Court.

The President of the High Court has made orders directing that a website involved in a practice known as 'claims harvesting' be shut down.

A High Court judge has imposed litigation restrictions on a woman and her non-professional advisor over their involvement in multiple actions that amounted to "an abuse of process upon an abuse of process" concerning a Midlands farm.

A struck-off solicitor who had a deficit of €625,000 on a client account is not a fit person to be a member of the solicitors profession, the President of the High Court has held.

A young woman with mental health issues who has spent two years on an acute psychiatric hospital ward is fit for discharge into supported accommodation in the community, but there is no place for her, the High Court has heard.

A teenage girl with severe anorexia who is still being tube-fed 10 months after being moved to a specialist eating disorder unit in the UK has written directly to the President of the High Court appealing to be let return home to Ireland for a visit.

The health minister must urgently devise an “administrative solution” to a problem confronting the commission investigating the treatment of the intellectually disabled woman known as Grace, lawyers for the commission have told the High Court.

Former justice minister Michael McDowell has attacked Transport Minister Shane Ross, claiming his desire to reform how judges are appointed stems from a “personal agenda”.

The Government is to press ahead with controversial reforms of the judicial appointments system despite an unprecedented warning from the country’s top judges that the move will have “serious implications for the administration of justice”.

A judge has made orders permitting the detention in hospital and tube feeding of a teenage girl with the most severe form of anorexia nervosa, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

A teenage boy who has said he intends to kill small children to stop them growing into “bad and violent adults” needs urgent assessment and treatment, the President of the High Court has said.

Even those with no voice can eventually find justice when a republic does its duty, writes Fergus Finlay.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee must pay two-thirds of former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins’ costs of her failed case over its conduct of hearings, concerning public monies paid to the Rehab group, the High Court has ruled.

The President of the High Court today said it was "really shameful" legislation has not yet been introduced for a system of periodic payments for the catastrophically injured who settle their medical negligence actions.

It has emerged today that Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton has met with the President of the High Court, in a bid to reign in insurance pay-outs.

A solicitor avoided jail at the 11th hour when he came up with a bank draft for €23,000 he should not have held back for work on administering two estates on behalf of a will executor.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin yesterday suggested a strong defence should be prepared to challenge businessman Denis O’Brien’s legal action against the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Preparations for the trial of Independent TD Michael Lowry on tax charges should not be suspended because of his impending legal bid to stop the tax case going ahead, the President of the High Court said yesterday.

The High Court is due to hear a case next Tuesday in relation to the clinically dead woman who is on life support for the sake of her baby.

The State is opposing an application by lawyers for the hooded men for their legal costs over a case they brought to the High Court in a bid to compel the Government to seek a revision from the European Court of Human Rights of its findings over their internment in the 1970s.

Like anyone who represents a party or parties before our courts, I read with concern the comments by the President of the High Court about a shortage of judges.

Michael McKevitt — who is serving a 20-year sentence for directing terrorism and membership of the Real IRA — is entitled to immediate release arising from recent legal rulings concerning remission rights, the High Court has been told.

A woman rearing her family on a widow’s pension since her husband was killed in a workplace accident 14 years ago has failed in a bid to have a €795,000 damages award paid out to her under the State-backed Insurance Compensation Fund.

The President of the High Court has said it should not be "impossible" for financial organisations to show "empathy and understanding" in situations such as where a man diagnosed with heart disease got no payment from his insurer, despite having critical illness cover for conditions including heart attack and stroke.

A rape trial has collapsed after the alleged victim refused to give consent for the release of “sensitive personal information” held by social workers.

The Central Bank has secured orders permitting the public release of some but not all of the material used to support its application leading to Newbridge credit union being subsumed into Permanent TSB for some €54m.

The President of the High Court is examining allegations that a Circuit Court judge tried to interfere in a family law case.

Attempts by pro-life campaigners to block the passing of the abortion legislation were rejected by the High Court which said it had no power to interfere with the legislation currently before the Dáil.

The President of the High Court, Nicholas Kearns, has rowed in on the row over judicial independence.

Lawyers for Ian Bailey have gone to the High Court in a bid to make the gardaí and State hand over documents which, they contend, support claims of malice against Mr Bailey in the Garda probe into the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

A director of Permanent TSB has described as “an egregious breach of court process” a court bid by the bank and a group of directors to prevent any action aimed at disqualifying any of the directors from involvement in the management of a company.

The High Court has today barred businessman Noel O'Gara from bringing any further legal actions in relation to Dartmouth Square in Dublin.

Society’s interest in disco-uraging suicide does not justify the State’s blanket ban on assisted suicide in the case of a terminally ill woman who wants to die at a time of her choosing but is unable to take her own life, the High Court was told yesterday.

X Factor judge Louis Walsh said today he will “never get over” The Sun newspaper’s defamatory story that he sexually assaulted a man as he settled a lawsuit for £400,000.

By Aodhan O'Faolain and Ray Managh

A legal challenge by convicted criminal Wayne Dundon to a decision by the authorities at Cloverhill Prison to isolate him from the mainstream population has been further adjourned in the High Court.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan told the administrators of Quinn Insurance (QIL) he was frustrated at the “large underestimation” which has seen the liabilities for the insurance compensation fund rise to a possible €1.65bn.

Two officials at IBRC (formerly Anglo Irish Bank) have brought a High Court challenge over a customer's private prosecution against them for alleged deception.

The High Court has today dismissed a challenge brought by two community group to the HSE's planned closure of an in-patient psychiatric unit at South Tipperary General Hospital, with the patients being transferred to Kilkenny.