A couple has taken a legal challenge over a coroner's refusal to await the report of an external review into the care of their 19-year-old daughter at Sligo University Hospital before resuming an inquest into her death.

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 will begin considering its verdict tomorrow in solicitor Gerald Kean’s action alleging he was defamed in an article concerning a visit by officers of the Criminal Assets Bureau to his Dublin offices.

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.

The husband of a terminally ill woman who has sued over the alleged misinterpretation of her CervicalCheck smear test has told how their lives have been turned upside down since her cancer diagnosis.

The Court of Appeal will rule later on an appeal by Kenmare Resources over a €10m libel award, the highest in the history of the State, to its former deputy chairman Donal Kinsella over a press release issued by the firm.

A Dublin barman who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a street assault has been awarded €710,000 by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal.

A High Court judge is hearing arguments about the issues the Court of Justice of the EU should address in deciding the validity or otherwise of European Commission decisions approving EU-US data transfer channels used by Facebook and others.

The Supreme Court is to hear further submissions on whether a defamation action in which a man was awarded €900,000 should go back for a full jury re-trial or whether the court itself could assess damages.

Ryanair claims Channel 4 and a production company behind an allegedly defamatory TV programme about the airline cannot claim journalistic privilege over sources for information in the broadcast.

A High Court judge has raised issues with lawyers for the US government about the effect of findings of non-compliance by US intelligence agencies with restrictions on surveillance, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

A High Court judge will hear the action by the Data Protection Commissioner over the legality of existing data transfer channels between the EU and US next year.

The iconic Clerys department store was purchased following a number of secret meetings as part of a plan called ‘Project Clock’, the High Court has heard.

The Sunday World has apologised, and agreed to pay undisclosed damages, to a Bank of Ireland employee under a settlement of his legal action alleging defamation in an article concerning a €7.6m tiger kidnapping heist in Dublin.

The US government wants to be joined to legal proceedings here involving issues of huge significance for privacy rights of EU citizens, arising from the internet transfer of their personal data to the US.

A dispute between the solicitors firm Eversheds and Dunnes Stores over fees for professional services has been admitted to the Commercial Court.

The State wants the High Court to strike out a decision it can be sued, along with the Christian Brothers, by three alleged sexual abuse victims, following a European court ruling in the landmark Louise O’Keeffe case.

A woman left paralysed after undergoing surgery on her spine at a Dublin hospital six years ago yesterday received an apology in the High Court.

The Sunday World has urged the Court of Appeal to overturn a €900,000 damages award made to a man after a jury found he was libelled in an article describing him as a “Traveller drug king”.

The High Court will decide next week if it will dismiss an interim examiner appointed to four main companies in the Cork-based O’Flynn Construction Group.

Examinership would undoubtedly be of benefit to the four insolvent Cork-based O’Flynn construction companies and for the benefit of their employees, the High Court has been told.

A former technical director of the Irish branch of MongoDB Limited, a Californian-based technology company that employs 30 people in Ireland, has failed in obtaining a High Court injunction restraining his purported dismissal.

A man who gave evidence in the murder trial of Catherine Nevin cannot continue a legal action against a newspaper over an article stating he tried to sell it photographs of him and Mrs Nevin naked in bed together, the High Court has ruled.

A mother has gone to the High Court in a bid to make the HSE comply with her request for a home birth.

Pop music manager Louis Walsh yesterday received an apology and a €500,000 settlement from The Sun newspaper over a false story that he sexually assaulted a man in a Dublin nightclub.

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.

'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh has settled a €500,000 defamation action against News Group Newspapers in Ireland.

More than 100 Irish and UK investors in a property in China have brought court proceedings over an alleged “secret profit” of €8m made by the promoters of the investment.

Two newspapers who published an article which collapsed a criminal trial have disputed the level of costs they are liable for.

Three companies in the Dublin-based Moritz Group have asked the High Court to grant a stay for three months on registration of orders requiring them to repay over €172m to Nama.

Three companies in the Dublin-based Moritz Group who have been sued by the National Assets Management Agency (Nama) over unpaid loans made by three banks have asked the High Court for three-month stay on a summary judgment of more than €170m being registered against them.

A farmer whose wife died over two months after undergoing brain surgery yesterday partially settled his action in the High Court.

JOURNALIST and broadcaster Sam Smyth was awarded legal costs in the tens of thousands against Michael Lowry after his successful defence of a defamation action against him by the Co Tipperary TD.

Journalist and broadcaster Sam Smyth was today awarded legal costs in the tens of thousands against Michael Lowry following Smyth’s successful defence of a defamation action against him by the Co Tipperary TD.

THE Commercial Court yesterday directed parties in the McInerney construction group examinership to exchange information in time for a full hearing of the matter just before Christmas.

THE Sunday World has apologised before the High Court to a woman who sued it for libel over articles related to the laundering of the proceeds of the IRA’s £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery in 2004.

A LIQUIDATOR was appointed yesterday by the High Court to two offive companies in the McInerney construction group.

CONVICTED child porn user Barry Watters is to ask a judge to jail Star Sunday editor Ger Colleran for contempt of court.

The High Court extended protection to the troubled McInerney building group until November 2.

THE partner of pantomime star Twink’s ex-husband, David Agnew told the High Court newspaper articles about her family meant she was a whore and her son a bastard.

The HSE has apologised to the family of a 59-year-old patient of University College Hospital Galway who died following a two-year delay in diagnosing his cancer.