Eight-month-old twins have to sleep in Moses baskets in a rat-infested home shared with their Traveller parents and seven young siblings, the High Court was told yesterday.

Eight-month-old twins have to sleep in Moses baskets in a rat-infested home shared with their Traveller parents and seven young siblings, the High Court was told yesterday.

Gina Farrell, the self-styled ‘cleaner to the stars’ who fled her solicitor’s office after grabbing the deeds of an apartment she owns, has reached agreement with her former solicitor over a €100,000 debt.

A judge has made orders allowing doctors administer life-saving treatment to a young woman in an advanced state of malnutrition due to anorexia.

Irish oil and gas exploration firm Petroceltic was yesterday granted an injunction preventing an extraordinary general meeting that had been called by its largest shareholder, Worldview, from going ahead.

A West of Ireland-based air service is challenging in the High Court the State’s decision to award the Aran Islands contract to a rival service.

An interim examiner has been appointed by the High Court to a Co Wexford-based steel-fabrication business, which employs 24 people.

A man who sued McDonald’s for compensation for his fractured arm — suffered on a night when he consumed six pints of cider and was involved in a separate incident in which he got a bloody nose — lost his case yesterday.

A motorist injured in a head-on collision was awarded €295,000 in an assessment of her injuries at the High Court sitting in Cork yesterday.

The condition of the man who had six pints of beer and slipped on a floor in McDonald’s was described by his lawyer as “a moderate level of inebriation in the great tradition of celebration of St Stephen’s night in this country”.

McDonald’s claimed a premises where a man is suing for a slip on a wet floor was inspected every 15 minutes and it was put to the plaintiff the six pints he had earlier in the night might have had something to do with the fall.

A young man suing McDonald’s for an injury in a fall was cross-examined about banter on his Facebook page to the effect that he would be ‘minted’ after the case.

A father who claimed a judge was biased because of alleged political interference by former Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke during family law proceedings has lost a legal challenge seeking to set aside an order granting full custody of his son to his estranged wife.

Our courts must bring legal certainty to the complex world of surrogacy, writes Caroline O’Doherty

The State has dragged its feet on regulating in the area of surrogacy and assisted reproduction, writes Louise Crowley

NOTHING to see here, folks, now move along please. So went the tone of the statement issued by the presidents of the High and Circuit Courts on Monday evening regarding the latest controversy to hit the judiciary.

The genetic parents of twins born to a surrogate have won a High Court case to have the genetic mother recognised on the children’s birth certs.

An Irishman has won his High Court bid to be declared father and guardian of a two-year-old girl born in India under a surrogacy arrangement.

The High Court is expected to rule today in a landmark surrogacy case.

The High Court has reserved its decision in a landmark action brought on behalf of twins born to a surrogate who are seeking to have their genetic mother named as their mother on their birth certs.

An expert in assisted human reproduction has told the High Court the failure by Government to introduce legislation is “very disappointing” and “tragic”.

Issues have been raised in an action taken by two children who wish to have their genetic mother’s name on their birth certificates that have never before been considered by the Irish courts, despite advances made in IVF technology, the High Court has heard.

A SHAREHOLDER who is challenging the Government’s recapitalisation of Irish Life and Permanent has told the High Court the legal challenge is one of the most important cases in the history of the state.

A shareholder in Irish Life and Permanent who is challenging the Government's recapitalisation of the bank has told the High Court the legal challenge is one of the most important cases in the history of the State.

A MAN jailed for his part in the first killing in the vicious Limerick feud, has narrowly escaped death.

A FAMILY law expert and author of a new guide for lawyers on the area has called for a radical reform of the courts because families are facing a hard road through the legal system.

The High Court has remanded in custody a Limerick man whose extradition is being sought by the UK authorities in connection with an attempt to import cannabis worth more than £1m (€1.12m).

An appeal brought by Co Kerry man against his conviction for raping a woman he met in the early hours of the morning outside a disco has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A LESBIAN couple, who reached an agreement with a man to father a child with one of them, have lost a Supreme Court appeal against an injunction restraining them travelling to Australia with the one-year-old boy for a year.

A Kerry rapist currently serving an eight-year sentence has been jailed for an additional seven years for attempted rape by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

A jailed Kerry rapist will be sentenced on Mary 26 by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court for attempted rape of a 17-year-old girl he met at a Killarney disco on Christmas Eve 2004.

A playwright and arts administrator has been jailed for 16 years by Mr Justice Henry Abbott for raping a woman following a drugs and alcohol party in his Drogheda flat.

A Kilkenny man who was accused of fracturing his friend’s skull with a rock and burning his legs in a fire was today given a suspended sentence.

A Kilkenny man who was accused of striking his friend on the head with a rock and attempting to set him on fire will be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court today.

A Dublin man accused of fatally stabbing a young father in a street brawl has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man kissed his baby son on the head minutes before he was stabbed to death in a Tallaght street brawl, a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The jury in the trial of a Kilkenny man accused of attempted murder will begin their deliberations on a verdict tomorrow at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

A Kilkenny man accused of attempting to murder a friend he thought had HIV, told his cousin he “had seriously assaulted somebody” on the morning of the alleged incident, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Kilkenny man who allegedly set fire to a friend he suspected had HIV, comforted and shared drink with his victim earlier in the evening, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

BUSINESSMAN Denis O’Brien has brought a High Court challenge to the Moriarty Tribunal’s decision to hold public hearings into a purchase made by a company under his control and possible connections to former minister Michael Lowry.

Two Dublin men were jailed for life after a jury found them guilty of the murder of a Finglas man, who was stabbed 17 times, at the Central Criminal Court today.

CHRISTMAS 2004 will be one never to forget for all the wrong reasons for four families from Dublin’s northside after events in the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

The sentence date for convicted murderer Christopher Dunne for the fatal stabbing of teenager Alan Higgins over his mobile phone has been set by the Central Criminal Court.

A Central Criminal Court jury took just one hour to find a sergeant not guilty of raping a woman in a Co Donegal garda station.