An appeal raising issues about the applicability of EU data protection laws to asylum seekers has been rejected by a 2/1 majority of the Court of Appeal.

The State has given an undertaking not to extradite an Irishman described by the FBI as the world's 'largest facilitator of child porn' pending the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal.

A woman has been ordered to pay a Dublin maternity hospital’s legal costs of her failed appeal alleging a symphysiotomy carried out on her in 1963, 12 days before her first baby was born, was unjustified.

Revenge porn is not illegal in Ireland despite widespread criminalisation elsewhere, writes Joyce Fegan.

Businessman Harry Crosbie has lost an appeal over Nama’s efforts to recover a €77m debt under which his personal assets, including his family home, are at risk.

A Laois man convicted of indecently assaulting a girl in his neighbourhood when he was a teenager has been jailed for two and a half years.

A Garda and former senior Kilkenny hurler who lost partial vision after he was run down by a getaway car in a robbery at a Glanbia plant was yesterday awarded almost €280,000 damages in the High Court.

The Department of Environment has confirmed it is looking at “urgent legislative change” following a recent court decision that has changed the amount hauliers are liable to pay to tax their vehicles.

A man convicted of raping his spouse told gardaí it was not possible for a husband to rape a wife, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A man convicted of raping his spouse told gardaí that it was not possible for a husband to rape a wife, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A rapist described as a "serious threat to the women of Cork" has been released from prison following a successful appeal against the activation of his sentence for having a drink.

A rapist described as a “serious threat to the women of Cork” has been released from prison following a successful appeal against the activation of his sentence for having a drink.

A plan for six wind turbines in Co Cork has to be considered as part of an overall assessment of how they will be connected to the national power grid, the High Court has found.

Employee defending action over comments made in TV programme

A former Mr Ireland who suffered severe brain injuries after he was run over by a bin lorry seven years ago has been awarded just under €5m damages against Dublin City Council in the High Court.

A golfer who suffered a stroke after having been hit on the head by a golf ball, has been awarded just under €275,000 damages in the High Court.

Judge says court needs further information on ‘rather large’ legal bill

A member of a horse-owning syndicate who says he paid €26,000 for a share in a stallion claims an attempt is being made to sell the animal well below what he believes it may be worth, the High Court has heard.

The High Court has granted an injunction against the Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan, following his decision to refer papers on a case to the DPP for a perjury investigation.

A golfer described in court how he ran to the club house when he heard his wife had been hit with a golf ball to find her with blood pouring from her head.

The union representing psychiatric nurses has been granted leave by the High Court to challenge the 50% reduction in sick leave entitlement imposed on public servants by a two-year-old Labour Court ruling.

A woman whose hopes of competing in the Special Olympics were dashed when a fracture to her knee was missed by a hospital has settled her action against the HSE for €142,000.

Superstar singer Rihanna is being sued in the Irish courts for alleged defamation.

An important dispute over whether internet hosting sites have immunity from defamation litigation is to be thrashed out before the Supreme Court.

A homeless couple have lost a High Court bid to have the custody of their prematurely-born baby returned to them after he has received medical treatment and is discharged from hospital.

A young Chinese woman who has been living in Ireland for almost eight years, is facing deportation — all because of a shopping day-trip to Belfast.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge by a postmaster who claimed An Post unfairly terminated his contract four months after his son was kidnapped by armed tiger raiders.

The High Court has refused applications by bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn and eight of his family members to discharge injunctions restraining all or any of them from dealing with assets of a number of Quinn companies.

A drug dealer and addict caught with heroin and cocaine valued at €55,000 nine years ago has been spared jail because he is dying.

A decision that a defamatory YouTube video be permanently removed from the internet should only be arrived at after a full trial of the matter, a High Court judge was told yesterday.

Arrangements must be made within the next month to permanently remove an internet video clip falsely accusing a student of taxi fare evasion, a High Court judge ruled yesterday.

Businessman Breifne O’Brien maintains he cannot get a fair trial on theft and deception charges because of adverse publicity.

The family of Kevin Kershaw, who died on his first ever fishing trip when the Tit Bonhomme trawler went down off the Cork coast in January, has settled a High Court action for damages for €40,000.

The Garda Cold Case Unit has launched a review of the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

The High Court has dismissed a pensioner's application to bring proceedings arising out of the controversial decision to allow stand a goal scored by Meath in the 2010 Leinster football final against Louth.

Convicted wife killer Joseph O’Reilly has failed in yet another bid for freedom from the life sentence he is serving for murder.

Convicted wife killer Joseph O’Reilly has today failed in his latest appeal against the life sentence he is serving for murder.

Former Roscommon Herald chief executive officer Brian Nerney has been refused an injunction restraining Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH) from dismissing him.

Four of the 3,500 Irish patients fitted with allegedly defective DePuy orthopaedics hip joints have been given leave by the High Court to serve personal injury summonses on the US company.

The price Thomas Crosbie Holdings paid Brian Nerney, former chief executive of the Roscommon Herald, for the newspaper in 2004 is to remain a secret at least until Monday.