A special needs assistant now paraplegic following a road accident has won, by a four to one majority, her Supreme Court appeal over a decision she cannot return to work at a special needs school.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in November against a key High Court judgment in the case of terminally ill Ruth Morrissey.

The Supreme Court has been asked to urgently hear an appeal against a key High Court judgment in the case of terminally ill Ruth Morrissey.

Dunnes Stores has lost its Supreme Court appeal concerning the validity of laws under which the Revenue Commissioners later raised tax assessments of €36.5m on the supermarket chain concerning certain plastic bags.

A financial fund cannot rely on a man's deposit of land certificates with a bank to give it a lien or claim over his registered lands in Co Sligo, a five judge Supreme Court has ruled.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a "leapfrog" appeal by the State against an important ruling in favour of convicted murderer Graham Dwyer. A hearing date for the appeal will be fixed later.

Three Supreme Court judges will meet next week to consider whether to hear a "leapfrog" appeal by the State against an important ruling in favour of convicted murderer Graham Dwyer.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an unusual application by the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries to review its decision upholding a €49,600 damages award to the owners of two fishing vessels.

A Co Meath farmer has lost his Supreme Court appeal over a bank’s appointment of a receiver over annual payments of €170,000 to him under the EU Basic Payment Scheme.

A young man who absconded from an open prison and lived "in plain sight" for more than four years before re-arrest has won Supreme Court declarations that his re-arrest and subsequent detention to serve out the rest of his 16-month sentence were unlawful.

The Supreme Court, by a three to two majority, has rejected claims by a former school teacher it would be unconstitutional to permit his prosecution for alleged offences of gross indecency against a male pupil between 1978-80 when the boy was aged between 15 and 17 years.

A rapist jailed for 12 years who successfully challenged the constitutionality of a law stopping payment of the State's old age pension to prisoners is entitled to €10,000 in damages, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A Supreme Court judgment could have positive implications for the rights of thousands of people from outside the European Economic Area who came here as students before 2011 and stayed on to work.

A Nigerian mother and her Irish-born son, who has a severe form of sickle cell disease, a blood disorder, have lost their Supreme Court appeal over being refused permission to challenge orders for their deportation.

A seven judge Supreme Court will hear separate appeals this month by former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins and businessman Denis O’Brien.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal with potentially important implications for how the ESB and other statutory bodies carry out their functions.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals by the Minister for Justice with significant implications for many non-European Economic Area people who stayed after coming to Ireland as students before 2011 and wish to continue living and working here.

A Supreme Court judge says our system of processing asylum applications serves neither asylum-seekers not the State and is “costly”, “inefficient”, and “counter-productive in its effect”.

An appeal against the High Court rejection of a man’s claim that RTÉ and columnist Fiona Looney stole the idea for the reality show Celebrity Bainisteoir has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.

A man convicted for his role in the smuggling of €440m worth of cocaine off the coast of Cork claims he should not have been convicted for sale and supply because the drugs were not destined for this country.

A pub found guilty of allowing drink be supplied to a child has lost a Supreme Court appeal which centred on its claim that the charge should have been dismissed because it exercised “due diligence” in assessing whether the girl was old enough to be served alcohol.

A former soldier who sued over post-traumatic stress disorder, allegedly from seeing bodies of some of the 48 victims of the 1981 Stardust fire, has lost his Supreme Court appeal against the dismissal of his action.

The genetic mother of twins born to a surrogate has lost her legal battle to be declared the children’s legal mother on their birth certificate.

A Supreme Court judge has queried why somebody didn’t shout stop and urge mediation before lengthy litigation was embarked on by a teacher over being required to undergo psychiatric assessment to see if she was fit to resume work.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reserved judgement in the case of a Co Tipperary man who is appealing against the severity of his eight-year sentence for a violent sexual assault on a teenager.

An appeal by an Englishman against his conviction for his role in the biggest drugs haul in Irish history has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A bid by the Real IRA’s Michael McKevitt to have his conviction for directing terrorist activities declared a miscarriage of justice has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Brennans the bakers were yesterday given 48 hours to change packaging on one of their brown bread products following a Supreme Court ruling.

The Government has nominated barrister Colm MacEochaidh, a former Fine Gael election candidate, for appointment to the High Court.

A HIGH Court judge has refused, on condition of Ryanair’s consent to provide certain undertakings, to grant an injunction restraining the airline allegedly intimidating agency staff selling rail tickets for London at Dublin Airport on behalf of a British company.

A HIGH Court dispute between Fás and its now former director of health and safety Greg Craig has been settled.

FÁS has agreed not to take any steps to sack its director of health and safety, Greg Craig, pending a two-week High Court determination in October of his purported dismissal three weeks ago.

IRISH Life and Permanent’s Trustee Savings Bank (PTSB) failed to act in good faith by concealing the existence of a taped telephone conversation with a customer, a High Court judge said yesterday.

A HIGH Court judge has refused to interfere with a judgment recently delivered by one of his colleagues in relation to the sale of O’Connor’s Nenagh Shopping Centre, Co Tipperary.

CHILDCARE staff who failed to take six children out of a home where they suffered years of neglect and sexual abuse are only now to be investigated by the HSE after the full horrors of the case were published yesterday.

ONE of the young children abused in the Roscommon case told a High Court judge: “We just want to be normal kids.”

The High Court has today appointed an interim examiner to the firm that owns and operates Zumo juice and smoothie bars.

The Court of Criminal Appeal reserved judgement today on an attempt by convicted murderer Brian Kearney to have his case heard by the country’s highest court.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge to the constitutionality of a provision of the Charities Acts which outlaws the sale of Mass cards except through an arrangement with the Catholic Church.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a Dublin man's bid to have his appeal against his conviction for IRA membership heard by the Supreme Court.

The High Court in Dublin has remanded in custody a Belfast man who extradition is being sought by authorities in the North for a kidnapping that threatened the peace process.