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.

A company director who was voted on to the board of Irish Life & Permanent Group Holdings lost his court bid yesterday to force the company to immediately complete his appointment.

The High Court has reserved judgment on whether a district court judge was correct in her interpretation of the law when she dismissed a prosecution against tobacco manufacturer PJ Carroll for giving vouchers to shop staff as a reward for promoting its cigarette products.

THE state is entitled, both under the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), to enact laws stipulating a mandatory life sentence for the crime of murder, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.

A SUGAR company is seeking multi-million-euro damages, including punitive and aggravated damages, for losses allegedly sustained as a result of Irish Sugar plc’s abuse of a dominant market position during the 1990s.

THE Mahon Tribunal is entitled to question Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s banking expert Paddy Stronge about his view that the tribunal has advanced incorrect suggestions about the nature of lodgments to bank accounts of Mr Ahern, counsel for Mr Ahern agreed yesterday.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today began a High Court challenge to limit the work of the Mahon Tribunal probing planning corruption in the 1990s.

A HIGH COURT challenge by Cardinal Desmond Connell over the right of access to documents by a commission of investigation into child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese was dramatically withdrawn yesterday.

A “DRAMATIC” view has been taken by the Attorney General that documents signed four years ago by the estranged husband of a woman consenting to fertility treatment for his wife mean there can be a subsequent implantation in his wife of any resulting embryos without any new consent from the husband, the High Court was told yesterday.