A High Court judge will decide on Monday if he is to extend court protection from its creditors to the parent companies of a firm within the John J Fleming Construction group.

An man who lost his legal challenge against the Redress Board's refusal to accept his application for compensation is to appeal his case to the Supreme Court.

An alleged victim of abuse has lost his legal challenge against the Redress Board's decision to refuse his late application for compensation on the grounds of exceptional circumstances.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed a Cork man's conviction for the rape of his former girlfriend's two teenage sisters.

The High Court will rule next week on a legal challenge brought by a man who claims he was abused in an industrial school against the Residential Institutions Redress Board's refusal to accept his application for compensation.

The trial of a Cork man jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of raping his former girlfriend's two teenage sisters was "unsafe and unsatisfactory" because information was not disclosed to his legal team until his appeal was being prepared, the Court of Criminal Appeal heard today.

A Dublin man who bit off part of the right ear of a security man after being refused entry to a pub must serve time in prison due to the serious nature of the assault, the Court of Criminal Appeal has determined.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in an Galway woman's appeal against the severity of the nine year prison sentence she received for stabbing her neighbour to death following a row over a puppy.