The European Court of Justice will deliver its opinion this week on a challenge by shareholders of Permanent TSB against the constitutionality of legislation used by the Government to recapitalise the bank during the economic crisis.

The High Court has declared the manner in which penalty points were imposed on the licence of a sea-fishing vessel over an under-recorded catch was contrary to fair procedures.

A man claimed he fell out of a moving patrol car on his way to a Garda station after he had been arrested for drink driving, the High Court heard.

Businessman Denis O’Brien has no issue about being named in relation to an unsuccessful appeal he took against a lower court’s decision about a tax case, the High Court has heard.

A businessman has lost a High Court appeal against a lower court’s decision in relation to a tax case.

A Belfast man yesterday lost a High Court challenge to his 1970s Portlaoise Prison medical records being handed over to the Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland for use as evidence in an attempted murder charge which he currently faces.

The publishers of the Irish Mail on Sunday have apologised in the High Court to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, James Reilly, over an article which falsely linked him to a developer building a new public health clinic.

An acutely ill and profoundly disabled 10-year-old girl in State care should not receive emergency life-saving intervention if it is needed, the High Court has ruled.

A woman whose child was born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement has lost her High Court action alleging the State’s refusal to pay her maternity benefit amounts to unlawful discrimination in breach of the Equal Status Act.

Part-time teachers were yesterday given a major boost with a High Court judgment that has major implications for their entitlements.

A former Catholic archbishop has settled his High Court action alleging he was defamed and wrongly depicted as a paedophile in the May 2011 RTÉ Prime Time Investigates: Mission to Prey programme.

A 45-year-old woman has told the High Court a priest kissed her and touched her breast when she was a teenager in 1983.

Former Irish rugby star Frankie Sheahan and his brother could face bank repossession on a number of properties after a High Court judge yesterday found in favour of the bank parties in a legal dispute over the alleged non-payment of loans.

A landmark High Court ruling on the country’s human trafficking laws could have “significant implications” for prosecutions going through the courts, legal experts have said.

An EU directive relating to victims of human trafficking has not been properly transposed into Irish law, a High Court judge has ruled.

Nama has secured final judgment for €8m against the wife of Priory Hall builder Thomas McFeely arising out of an unpaid loan secured on the family home in Ailesbury Rd, Dublin.

Permanent TSB Group Holdings Plc may raise as much as €400m in a share sale, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, more than double the amount signalled by the lender last month.

The Central Bank has secured High Court orders allowing for the transfer of assets and liabilities from Killorglin Credit Union to Tralee Credit Union.

A judge has ruled Ryanair is entitled to some documents it sought for its action alleging it was defamed by remarks relating to "low-fuel emergency landings".

A prisoner is entitled to be considered for enhanced remission for good behaviour from a six-year prison sentence, the High Court ruled.

The Prison Service is to respond to the High Court shortly explaining how a high-profile gangland inmate was able to brandish an object he claimed was a mobile phone before judges at the high-security Special Criminal Court.

Two of Limerick’s most dangerous criminals have received life sentences for the murder that finally forced the city to fight back.

The case against a Limerick man charged with the murder businessman Roy Collins boils down to the proposition that he “made a run for it” when spotted by gardaí walking with a man against whom there was evidence had carried out the shooting, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A convicted murderer who produced what he claimed to be a mobile phone while giving evidence at the trial of two Limerick men charged with the murder of Roy Collins was instead in possession of a television remote, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A convicted murderer who produced what he claimed to be a mobile phone while giving evidence at the trial of two Limerick men charged with the murder of Roy Collins was instead in possession of a television remote control, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A court has heard one of the men charged with murdering businessman Roy Collins was allowed to spend his days in prison chatting with his cousin while all other prisoners worked or were locked in their cells.

Firearms residue found on the tracksuit bottoms of one of the men accused of murdering a Limerick businessman supports the suggestion that he was at the shooting, his trial has heard.

A garda has told the Roy Collins murder trial that he pointed a gun at one of the accused men when he found him hiding under insulation in an attic after the murder.

Two men have appeared before the non-jury Special Criminal Court this evening charged with IRA membership and the possession of a semi-automatic pistol in south Dublin.

A 55-year-old man has appeared before the Special Criminal Court this afternoon charged with the possession of explosives at Finnstown House Hotel on Sunday.

The first Steve Collins knew about his son being shot was when one of his barmen told him there was "a fellow bleeding next door", a court has heard.

The trial of two Limerick men charged with murdering businessman Roy Collins has been adjourned until tomorrow for the completion of ‘long and complicated’ disclosure to the defence.

Garda whistleblower John Wilson yesterday lost his High Court claim that he should not have been subject to disciplinary proceedings arising from his attendance, while an off-duty garda, at district court proceedings in Cavan.

Sergeant Maurice McCabe is experiencing ongoing harassment at his place of work as a result of his efforts to expose malpractice in the Garda, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The Special Criminal Court has ordered the disclosure of any recordings made between gardaí and civilian witnesses during the investigation into two Limerick men charged with murdering businessman Roy Collins.

A man’s claim to squatter’s rights over a ruined 13th century castle in Galway has been rejected by the High Court.

A High Court ruling has significant implications for Ulster Bank’s efforts to recover debts in Ireland.

One of the whistleblowers behind the Garda penalty points controversy has brought a High Court challenge to findings that he breached disciplinary regulations arising from his attendance, while off-duty, at court proceedings in Cavan.

Ryanair says public comments made by pilots’ spokesman Evan Cullen about how its fuel policy allegedly affects its safety practices were defamatory, the High Court has heard.

A woman whose child was born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement has brought a High Court action alleging the State’s refusal to pay her maternity benefit amounts to unlawful discrimination. The Equality Authority is supporting the woman’s case.

Jailed Limerick criminal Wayne Dundon was entitled to a regular review of the strict conditions under which he was being held in the high security isolation unit of a prison, following his incarceration last year for witness intimidation, the High Court has ruled.

Former rugby star Frankie Sheahan and his business partner, brother Joseph, have lost their High Court challenge against Bank of Ireland taking possession of a number of their property investments and appointing a receiver over them.

An expectant mother who lost her legal battle with the HSE to be allowed a home birth is going to have her baby abroad.