NEW technology allowing video conference-style international link-ups for court cases is being incorporated into Cork’s Washington Street Courthouse, which will be back in business by the end of January 2005. It is five-and-a-half years since the doors of the historic building closed for renovations.

FIONA TWOMEY may be president of the Southern Law Association, but she doesn’t know much about the manufacture and construction of timber frame houses (Irish Examiner letters, Nov 15).

The widow of an elderly man who died as the result of a burn sustained in a nursing home was today awarded over €28,000 at Cork Circuit Court.

Lawyers in Cork lashed out at the authorities today saying that they were duped with the promise of a courthouse but all they got was a warehouse.