The survival scheme for the Fleming construction group which has debts of €1bn does not contain any commitment of continuing financial support from its banking creditors, the Supreme Court heard today.

THE Supreme Court is due to rule today on an appeal by a woman in her 40s against the High Court’s refusal to order a Dublin fertility clinic to release three frozenembryos to her for the purpose of pregnancy against her estranged husband’s wishes.

A GAY man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple who wanted a baby has been granted access to the three-year-old boy, but not guardianship by the Supreme Court.

A prestigious golf club was tonight accused of enforcing 19th century rules after it won a legal bid refusing women full membership.

One of Ireland’s most prestigious golf clubs today won a legal bid to refuse women full membership.

THE Department of Education’s lack of legal responsibility for the reprehensible actions of a minority of teachers against children was clarified by the highest court in the land last December.

THE Supreme Court has ruled a solicitor must compensate a bank because he released to a client a €250,500 loan cheque from the bank to buy lands in breach of an undertaking to first obtain a priority charge in favour of the Bank over the property.

The Supreme Court has today heard that the State is seeking its legal costs against the woman who was sexually assaulted as a child by her primary school principle.

AN EMBRYO created as a result of fertility treatment has no legal status here and is not entitled to constitutional protection unless implanted in a woman’s womb and may be legally destroyed prior to any such implantation, lawyers for the state have told the Supreme Court.

A SUPREME Court judge has described as “extraordinary” the failure of Government to take any steps at all to enact laws to regulate fertility treatment here.

THE Supreme Court has ruled in a test action that the State cannot be held vicariously liable for a series of sexual assaults by a national school principal on an eight-year-old girl.

A MOTHER-OF-TWO who was sexually abused by her school principal as a child has begged for mercy over the legal bill of more than half a million euro she faces after losing a battle to make the State take responsibility for her suffering.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has rejected appeals brought by a Moldovan man against both his conviction and eight-year prison sentence for starting a fire that caused €2.7 million worth of damage in a Co Cork town.

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in an appeal brought on the behalf of 54 year-old building contractor Colm Murphy aimed at stopping his re-trial on a conspiracy charge connected with the Real IRA Omagh bombing in which 29 people died.

DRUG dealer John Gilligan’s family claimed yesterday they were entitled to a new hearing of High Court proceedings which found their assets were the proceeds of crime.

The Supreme Court has commenced hearing an appeal brought on the behalf of 54-year-old building contractor Colm Murphy aimed at stopping his re-trial on a conspiracy charge connected with the Real IRA Omagh bombing in which 29 people died.

THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal brought by Michael McKevitt against his conviction for organising terrorist activities for the Real IRA.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal brought by Michael McKevitt against his conviction for organising terrorist activities for the Real IRA.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the extradition of 54-year-old Irishman businessman to the United States where he is wanted for sexually assaulting a minor during the 1990's.

The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s decision to refuse to extradite a Dublin man wanted in the UK on robbery charges.

IN a highly unusual decision, a man accused of murder has been awarded costs of €500,000 by the Supreme Court to pay for an unsuccessful legal bid to halt his trial.

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.

Transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court are "intensely relevant" to a civil action being brought against them in the North by victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Supreme Court heard today.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal later this week against the High Court ruling that the families of some victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to certain, but not all, of the documentation they had been seeking from five persons to be used in proceedings for damages against the five in the Northern Ireland courts.

Killer Charlotte Mulhall today lost an appeal against her conviction for the gruesome murder of her mother’s African boyfriend.

A serial sex offender once described by a judge as a "walking menace to every female" has had the six year prison sentence he received for sexually assaulting a young Japanese woman halved by the Court of Criminal appeal.

A man who raped and murdered a schoolgirl and left her to drown on a remote Connemara beach, today failed in his bid to have an appeal against his conviction heard by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme court has turned down an application by a former resident of an industrial School who during the 1960's was raped by her step-grandfather for leave to legally challenge the decision not to award her redress for the attacks.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by two Dublin men against their conviction for IRA membership.

THE Mahon Tribunal must pay the substantial costs of its unsuccessful court attempt to ban publication by the media now and into the future of documents circulated in private by the tribunal in advance of its public hearings, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a Stable-hand against his conviction for an assault that left a publican in a wheelchair.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has set aside the conviction and ordered the re-trial of a South African man jailed for the murder of his Irish born wife at their home in Co Meath shortly before Christmas 2004.

THE Supreme Court has reserved judgment in an appeal brought by the Fitzwilton group over the High Court’s refusal to restrain the Mahon Tribunal from holding a public hearing into the payment in 1989 by one of its companies of IR£30,000 to former Minister Ray Burke for Fianna Fáil funds.

THE Supreme Court has refused, by a three to two majority, to give the Mahon Tribunal an order banning publication by the media of documents circulated in private by the tribunal in advance of its public hearings.

THE Supreme Court has agreed to continue a stay on the introduction of risk equalisation in the Irish health insurance market pending the hearing of an appeal by BUPA against the High Court’s rejection last December of its challenge to the validity of the scheme.

A MAN has begun his appeal against his conviction for the murder of a schoolgirl on a remote beach near Carraroe, Co Galway, in December 1998.

A LANDMARK Supreme Court ruling — which found the Labour Court had acted incorrectly in a row between Ryanair and its pilots — could have major implications for how industrial disputes at companies which do not recognise trade unions are resolved.

Ryanair may have won the battle, but the war remains to be decided.

Ryanair today won an appeal against a judgment that gave the Labour Court the right to investigate a row between the airline and its pilots.

CORK property developer Owen O’Callaghan’s appeal against the High Court’s rejection of his bid to prevent the Mahon tribunal’s further inquiring into or making any findings on allegations made against him by developer Tom Gilmartin will be heard within weeks the Supreme Court indicated yesterday.

Today’s Supreme Court judgement on the ’Mr A’ case clarifies the current position in relation to people convicted under the defunct underage rape law, the Taoiseach said tonight.

The continued detention of a sex offender known as Mr A is valid because he did not challenge legislation under which he was convicted at the time of his trial, the Supreme Court ruled today.

THE Supreme Court yesterday allowed an appeal by the State against a High Court decision, last Tuesday, to free a 41-year-old man serving a sentence for the statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl — and ordered his rearrest.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the convictions of two men convicted of cruelty to animals at a dog fight in Co Kildare in the first case of its kind in the history of the state.