Former justice minister Alan Shatter has asked the Court of Appeal to make orders quashing “enormously damaging” parts of the Guerin report criticising his handling of complaints made by Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

A retired High Court judge who got a €250,000 lump sum payment on retirement two years ago, plus €78,000 pension annually, following 12 years on a judicial salary ranging from €165,000 to €240,000, has said his income is not “adequate” to meet the needs of himself and his family.

The Court of Appeal will rule later on former justice minister Alan Shatter’s appeal over his failed challenge to parts of the Guerin report concerning his handling of complaints by Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

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.

Guerin probe into Garda whistleblower’s treatment left then justice minister with no option but to resign

Alan Shatter has instructed his legal team to appeal the High Court's refusal to quash parts of the Guerin report.

A distributor of a number of well-known tobacco brands says the Government cannot unilaterally introduce plain packaging on its products as a member of the EU.

A distributor of a number of well-known tobacco brands says the Government cannot unilaterally introduce plain packaging on its products as a member of the EU.

Golfer Rory McIlroy’s legal action against his former management team has been put back to this morning following day-long talks aimed at narrowing the issues in the case.

Sports management company Horizon seeks application for further inspection of mobile phones

Court told devices were restored to factory settings as Horizon claims they may have held vital material

Golfer Rory McIlroy’s father is to be asked to produce documents as part of his son’s legal dispute with a sports management company, the Commercial Court has heard.

The parents of a man with locked in syndrome after an operation at Cork University Hospital have told the High Court they have totally lost confidence in the HSE as a provider of services for their son.

The company that bought the €1.8bn debts of the O’Flynn Construction Group for just over €1bn has secured the appointment of an interim examiner for four key companies within the group.

An application may be made to join accountancy firm KPMG as a defendant to a legal action arising from €6bn losses at Irish Nationwide Building Society.

Businessman Harry Crosbie has accused Nama of trying to "bully" and "bulldoze" him and will ask the courts next week to try and stop it enforcing a €77m judgment against him.

Nama moved to enforce loans of €77m against businessman Harry Crosbie after he failed to disclose substantial assets to the agency when first asked to do so, the Commercial Court has heard.

Businessman Harry Crosbie is resisting a bid by Nama to get €77m judgment orders against him arising from personal loans and his personal guarantees of the liabilities of two companies.

Golfer Rory McIlroy wants an autumn trial date for his legal challenge to the validity and enforceability of representation agreements involving allegedly “unreasonable” fee rates and commissions, the Commercial Court has been told.

A former executive of collapsed stockbroking firm Bloxham signed annual accounts in 2012 treating a €6.2m valuation of its membership of the Irish Stock Exchange as an “asset” in the absence of regulatory approval for a proposed restructuring which would permit corporate members to get monies from the exchange company’s €45m reserves, the High Court has heard.

Some members of the wound up pension scheme of a company in the De Beers diamond manufacturing group have been left with no money and in great personal and financial distress, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

The head of the ESB should reply to a letter from the trustees of the company’s pension scheme that stated it was “difficult to comprehend” proposals to pay a €400m dividend to the State when there is a €1.7bn deficit in the scheme and a serious risk to its future funding, a High Court judge has said.

Golf star Rory McIlroy is to be hit with a counter claim when he takes legal action against his former sports agent, a court has been told.

The joint administrators of Quinn Insurance Ltd are suing the firm’s former auditors PriceWaterhouseCoopers for around €1bn over alleged negligent auditing of the company’s accounts over several years.

Aer Lingus is seeking a High Court ruling aimed at preventing Ryanair issuing another takeover bid for it until February of next year.

The Commercial Court will deal next month with an action by Aer Lingus aimed at preventing Ryanair issuing another takeover bid for the national carrier in August.

Aer Lingus has launched a High Court challenge against a ruling by the Irish Takeover Panel that could allow Ryanair to make another bid for the national carrier by August of this year.

The Irish Stock Exchange has asked the Commercial Court to rule whether or not decisions made by it may be judicially reviewed.

The High Court has ruled that the trustees of Aer Lingus workers’ pensions funds must be given prior notice of a proposed €500m distribution from Aer Lingus’s capital reserves so as to pay dividends to shareholders.

A Bank of Ireland petition to reduce its share capital by €3.92bn to €1.97bn has been approved by the Commercial Court.

Aer Lingus staff will stage a two-hour work stoppage as the pension dispute at the airline escalates, unions have said.

Legislation on media mergers will place “a very high premium on the public interest”, said Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte.

Media mogul Denis O’Brien has brought a High Court action aimed at preventing BT Communications Ireland Ltd exiting a 25-year lease on a property at Dublin’s Grand Canal Quay.

A High Court judge has expressed concern about aspects of an application by Aer Lingus Group plc for approval for a €500m share capital reduction in a situation where there is a €700m shortfall in the Aer Lingus pension fund.

Treasury Holdings and its owners Richard Barrett and John Ronan are being sued by Nama in a bid to reverse a controversial transaction where €20m shares were allegedly transferred out of the group to the benefit of Mr Barrett and Mr Ronan for €100,000 and unsecured loan notes.

A five-year survival scheme for Eircom approved by the High Court yesterday will see it and related companies exit the State’s biggest ever examinership on June 11.

Treasury Holdings was yesterday granted permission by the High Court to mount a legal challenge to Nama’s decision to call in its loans and appoint receivers over its properties here.

Treasury Holdings has been accused of coming to the High Court in spite of an agreement that it would not mount a legal challenge against NAMA.

THE state has rejected claims by Dunnes Stores that a €36.4 million tax assessment imposed on the supermarket chain arising out of the levy for plastic shopping bags is invalid.

Developer David Daly and his children have been granted leave by the High Court to challenge the demand by the National Assets Management Agency (Nama) for them to repay €457m they owe Allied Irish Bank.

ACC Bank is seeking judgment orders for about €30 million against Friends First Managed Pension Funds Ltd and two businessmen arising from a facility advanced in 2007 to buy property in Clare and to pay off another loan.