The Supreme Court has ruled that the families and victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to the transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court as part of a civil case being brought against the five in the North.

A pharmacist today won a High Court injunction to stop the Health Service Executive enforcing a cut in its contractual payments for prescription medication.

A PRIMARY school teacher has won her High Court bid to have health warnings on cigarette packets sold here published in Irish as well as English and also published in the same size. The warnings and other notices are currently printed in English only.

The High Court has ordered the release of a Dublin man, charged in connection of an attempted robbery of a cash transit van in Co Kildare last November, after finding that his detention is unlawful.

A young African woman and a member of the Jehovah's witness faith who suffered a massive blood loss after giving birth in the Coombe hospital refused a transfusion on a number of occasions, the High Court heard yesterday.

The High Court has been told that an action brought by a Dublin Maternity hospital arising out of a decision to seek a court order to allow them transfuse a Jehovahs' Witness who had suffered a massive blood loss after giving birth to may last until Christmas.

CONTROVERSIAL Independent Mayo TD Beverly Flynn, has launched a constitutional challenge to provisions which prevent a person who is an undischarged court-declared bankrupt from running for or being a member of the Dáil.

THE HSE has no legal power to direct the gardaí to restrain a person who is the subject of a care order, the High Court heard yesterday.

The State has no power to stop a teenage girl travelling to Britain for an abortion, the High Court was told today.

A 17-year old girl who is four months pregnant with a foetus suffering from a condition which means a major part of its brain is absent has brought a High Court case seeking to challenge directions by the HSE stopping her travelling outside the State for an abortion.

THE man at the centre of the Mr A case yesterday failed in his bid to have the State pay his legal costs for his challenge to his continued detention after the landmark Supreme Court decision which struck down the law on statutory rape.

Life begins at fertilisation, a former chairman of the Medical Council’s ethics committee today told a landmark legal case on the status of frozen embryos.

THE High Court has postponed hearing an application made by a notorious sex offender seeking his release from prison as a result of last week’s controversial Supreme Court ruling, which struck down the offence of statutory rape.

The High Court was warned today that it is wholly inconceivable to set free a convicted sex offender following the Supreme Court ruling that men who have sex with a minor should not automatically be deemed guilty of rape.

THE Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, Patsy McGarry, criticised me at length in these pages last Saturday for what I had written about the Tilson case of 1951, but he didn’t manage to find a single inaccuracy in what I said.

A High Court case attempting to block the Government’s plans to build the new M3 motorway close to the Hill of Tara was put back today pending a Supreme Court decision on another heritage site.

THE Oireachtas committee enquiring into the alleged misbehaviour of Judge Brian Curtin has set itself a target of reporting back to the Dáil and Seanad by autumn.

ACCESS to all documents gathered by the Government inspectors into the affairs of Ansbacher Cayman is being sought by the Revenue Commissioners and the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the High Court heard yesterday.