A holidaymaker who broke her wrist when she fell on a ramp while leaving an apartment building has appealed a High Court decision to award her €25,000 for her injury.

Seven out of 10 of all personal injury motor cases assessed by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) during the first half of this year were whiplash-related.

TWO lawyers, John and Paul, meet in the foyer of the Four Courts. Or maybe they are in Cork City courthouse, writes Michael Clifford

The Chairman of the Personal Injuries Commission has warned there needs to be “a massive onslaught” on fraud in the motor claims area and said as a “last resort” the Government could legislate to put a cap on the amount of compensation awarded.

Information held by insurance companies and other organisations on the incidence of whiplash injuries should be published, according to the Personal Injuries Commission.

The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has called for an independent investigation into allegations of harassment at the Gate Theatre, against its former director Michael Colgan.

A deal has not been reached on who will build, own and run the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) despite planners giving it the go-ahead this week.

Planning permission has been granted to build the new National Maternity Hospital on the campus of St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.

Many unsuitable people will be appointed judges if the Government pushes through controversial legislation, the Dáil has heard.

The Government plans to drive through legislation for the new judicial appointments system and does not expect to make any amendments despite calls for changes from top judges and opposition parties.

"I just wish I could return to my old life. The one where the love of my life was still alive and we were expecting our first child. My life after my wife’s death has been a never-ending nightmare."

The Supreme Court has found Shell E & P Ireland was acting in civil contempt of court orders when it entered nine years ago onto commonage lands at Rossport located on the modified route for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline.

Even those with no voice can eventually find justice when a republic does its duty, writes Fergus Finlay.

Plans for a new maternity hospital are back on track after the board of Holles Street overwhelmingly voted in favour of re-endorsing the deal struck last November that paved the way for its transfer to the campus of St Vincent’s University Hospital at Elm Park.

Last Sunday, shortly after lunchtime, Peter Boylan, the eminent ex-master of the National Maternity Hospital at Holles St, picked up his phone to send a text.

Health Minister Simon Harris is seeking a one-month national maternity hospital reprieve in a bid to rescue the crisis-hit project from the brink of collapse.

Latest: The deal to move Holles Street Hospital to St Vincent's in Dublin has been published.

In some ways, the controversy over the ownership of the new maternity hospital is the most bizarre I’ve ever come across. And the reason is simple. We don’t know enough about it to make a judgement. In fact, we don’t know anything.

It’s just over three years since Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan resigned. It’s not quite three years since Justice Minister Alan Shatter quit cabinet.

A judge has ordered the sale of the home of a convicted paedophile.

Motor insurances premiums could continue to climb as the Government has admitted it is powerless to stop increases.

What the banking inquiry really exposed was that there was no ‘gotcha’ moment, just a long period of bad politics, negligible regulation, and reckless trading, writes Michael Clifford

A firm of insurance brokers is entitled to damages against a Cork-based firm of solicitors over negligent handling of litigation, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The amount of damages will be decided later by the High Court.

Developer and New Land League campaigner Jerry Beades has launched a legal challenge against the Government’s nomination of Justice Peter Kelly as the next president of the High Court.

Geoffrey Shannon, the Government’s special rapporteur on child protection, has been nominated by the Government for appointment as a district court judge.

The absence of an appropriate unit in the State for medium term secure detention of women with serious mental health difficulties, but not so severe as to warrant detention in the Central Mental Hospital, has been highlighted in a High Court case.

Three actions for damages brought here against a Catholic Bishop in a representative capacity over the Church’s alleged failure to act to prevent paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth sexually abusing children have been halted by the Court of Appeal.

The woman at the centre of an abortion controversy last year has settled her High Court challenge aimed at stopping a HSE inquiry into the care provided to her by various State agencies.

Paul Carney, the former criminal law judge who presided over some of the most high profile and controversial cases in recent decades, died yesterday at the age of 72 after a short illness.

Ann O’Loughlin looks back on the high-profile and occasionally controversial career of the late Justice Paul Carney

The Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) must pay out on 1,750 outstanding claims following the collapse of the Setanta Insurance Company, a High Court judge has ruled.

A former director of a Dublin computer systems company claims in a High Court action that an anti-malarial drug, Lariam, which he took before honeymooning in Kenya 19 years ago, destroyed his life.

Convicted killer Mark Nash has lost his High Court bid to be returned from the Midlands Prison to Arbour Hill prison, Dublin, where he has spent the past 15 years.

A solicitor avoided jail at the 11th hour when he came up with a bank draft for €23,000 he should not have held back for work on administering two estates on behalf of a will executor.

A solicitor tried to defraud Revenue by underpaying €147,000 stamp duty due on a property transaction because a client persuaded him to do so, the High Court has heard.

Tycoon Denis O’Brien’s legal action over speeches made in the Dáil in relation to his banking affairs with Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) has been adjourned to October.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin yesterday suggested a strong defence should be prepared to challenge businessman Denis O’Brien’s legal action against the Houses of the Oireachtas.

The President of the High Court has said it is “hard to understand” how Dublin Bus drivers are expected to deal with problems among passengers as well as heavy traffic and taking fares.

Two solicitors overcharged by €340,000 for their work on administering the estate of a woman who left €14m to the St Vincent de Paul charitable society, the High Court has heard.

A settlement of €6.5m was approved by the High Court in the case of a teenage boy allegedly brain damaged at birth.

Two men have been refused permission by the High Court to bring petitions challenging the result of last month’s marriage equality referendum.

Two separate applications for leave to bring petitions challenging the result of the referendum clearing the way for same-sex marriage will come before the High Court today.