A water charges protester who dug up a water meter on the pavement outside his home and sent it to Irish Water with an invoice, has claimed before the High Court the plastic cover installed over the meter was unsafe.

A chief executive received more than £1m in unauthorised salary bonuses and pension payments, it has been claimed in the High Court.

Brian and Mary Patricia O’Donnell can remain in the former family home until April 15 after a court yesterday said it would not rule on their latest legal challenge until that date.

The receivers of the Spencer Dock Development Company have disputed claims by Davy Target Investments that it is entitled to €9m payments arising from agreements over distribution of rent monies from a large office block on Dublin’s quays.

A decision in an appeal by retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife Dr Mary Patricia over a finding they are trespassing on the former family home is expected before the end of next week.

The wife of retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell, Mary Patricia O’Donnell, has told a court she was “perfectly happy” her husband was appealing an order they leave their former family home.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife have been granted an extension until 2pm next Thursday by the Court of Appeal to challenge a High Court direction ordering them to vacate a property on Gorse Hill.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell claims he and his wife have paid €700m to banks worldwide but Bank of Ireland is the only one to have “persecuted us for five years”.

A solicitor turned billion euro property investor is facing eviction from a mansion on one of Ireland’s most exclusive addresses after a judge refused a last minute plea from his family to halt a repossession.

The adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell have been told by the Supreme Court they must leave their Co Dublin luxury home next month so it may be taken over by a bank-appointed receiver.

A High Court judge has made orders requiring members of bankrupt Seán Quinn’s family to disclose thousands of documents to a team appointed by a receiver for a decision on whether they are relevant to the Quinns’ assets and tax affairs.

Cork brothers Michael and John O’Flynn have told the High Court they would not be maintaining allegations of wrongdoing against four receivers appointed to their companies by Blackstone subsidiary Carbon Finance.

All the parties involved in developer Paddy McKillen’s action aimed at preventing the sale of his IBRC loans to the Barclay brothers will pay their own legal costs after a High Court ruling.

IBRC has argued that the taxpayer should not have to pay the costs of Paddy McKillen’s legal action aimed at preventing his loans being sold by the IBRC special liquidators to the Barclay brothers.

The wife of discharged bankrupt developer Larry O’Mahony is to be given €9,000-a-month for the family to live on after applying to the High Court.

One Dublin legal firm last year received fees in excess of €2m from Nama as the bonanza for professional firms from the agency’s work continued.

A legal action has been launched aimed at blocking access by Irish internet users to the free file-sharing website Pirate Bay and related sites.

The National Asset Management Agency has made further progress in identifying the recipients of highly confidential data, allegedly misappropriated from it by former executive Enda Farrell, the commercial court was told yesterday.

Confidential details of Nama’s loan and property portfolios worth billions of euro were leaked by a former employee, the High Court heard yesterday.

Nama will next week ask the Commercial Court to order insolvent developer Treasury Holdings to provide security for the costs of its forthcoming challenge to the agency’s decision to call in more than €1bn loans and appoint receivers over its properties here.

The High Court has agreed an early hearing date for a challenge by Treasury Holdings against NAMA's decision to appoint receivers to some of the company's properties.

AN order freezing the accounts of businessman John Morrissey below €36m has been granted by the commercial court pending his bid to overturn a judgment for that sum obtained against him by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

HOTELIER Jim Mansfield is opposing Bank of Scotland’s claim for summary judgment orders for €206m against him on grounds including that the bank’s failure to honour an alleged agreement to loan more money to complete the Citywest convention centre lead to the collapse of the Mansfield group.

ALLIED Irish Banks is suing two related international companies claiming some €84 million spent by it on a new retail banking software system was “wasted expenditure”.

AN examiner was appointed by the High Court yesterday to rescue a company within developer John Fleming’s construction group after the Dutch-owned ACC Bank failed in its bid to have a receiver appointed.

THE company operating Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel has failed in its attempt to have a stay put on a High Court ruling that the owners are entitled to access the hotel’s books and records.

RTÉ lawyers have questioned how Independent Mayo TD Beverly Flynn can fund a costly constitutional High Court challenge when she has not paid “a red cent” of a €2.8 million legal bill owed to the national broadcaster.