Talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s children denying liability for some €415m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, the High Court has heard.

The case, initiated in 2011, is currently being heard by Mr Justice Garrett Simons and may last months.

A High Court judge will rule next week whether Sean Quinn’s children can pursue a key claim their father unduly influenced them to sign securities for loans of hundreds of millions by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn group companies.

Sean Quinn’s family used the Quinn group as their “personal bank” from which they extracted some €1.95bn to fund their personal lifestyles, property acquisition and significant losses, the High Court has been told.

Nine men today walked free from court for their role in a "ferocious encounter" at a halting site where a number of petrol bombs were thrown and other weapons were used.

A dispute between Traveller families over who won an organised 13-minute long ‘fair fight’ between two men quickly erupted into a ‘ferocious encounter’ at a halting site where a number of petrol bombs were thrown and other weapons were used.

A High Court judge has deferred, pending the outcome of a further hearing, a decision on whether to direct payment of about €10,500 arrears of living expenses to Sean Quinn Junior and his wife.

Complaints by Sean Quinn Junior and his wife Karen Woods about a recent failure to pay some of their €100,000 annual living expenses should be seen in the context of a “scheme of misappropriation on a grand scale”, the High Court has been told.

Counsel said the cessation of the payments had caused the couple of Farmleigh Close, Farmleigh Woods Castleknock, Dublin some hardship particularly around Christmas.

Jondol Furniture directors, John and Dolores Quinn, have been adjudicated bankrupts by Ms Justice Marie Baker, in the High Court, on foot of a petition by the Revenue Commissioners.

A couple may have part of their 1,600 acre farm sold to pay a €352,000 debt to a grain merchant by order of the High Court.

A Dubai-based firm has failed to get a Supreme Court order aimed at preventing it being sued here over its acquisition of a multimillion-euro property in India from companies controlled by members of the family of businessman Sean Quinn.

A dispute between members of Seán Quinn’s family and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation over the scope of orders freezing and monitoring their accounts and assets has been adjourned at the High Court.

Receivers appointed over the assets of members of businessman Seán Quinn’s family say their living expenses should first be paid from personal accounts but not also from accounts frozen four years ago.

Members of Sean Quinn’s family are opposing an application for court orders to stop them receiving any further living expenses out of accounts controlled by receivers appointed over assets linked to Quinn companies.

And then there were two. The death of Fr Peter Quinn is the removal of another link to Mayo’s back-to-back All-Ireland winning side of 1950 and ’51. Now only two remain — full-back Paddy Prendergast who lives in Tralee, and centre forward Padraig Carney, a doctor in the US.

The family of businessman Seán Quinn want to amend their case against the State-owned IBRC to allege they were innocently unaware, when signing share pledges and guarantees as security for €2.34bn loans from Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, that security was allegedly for the unlawful purpose of propping up the bank’s share price.

A judge has been asked by State-owned IBRC to direct that the Quinn family’s action aimed at avoiding liability for €2.34bn loans should open as soon as possible this year.

In 1980, the Quinn brothers from Tyrone were the first four brothers to ever run the New

The family of businessman Seán Quinn are seeking mediation of their long and bitter dispute with State-owned IBRC over liability for loans of €2.34bn made by the former Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

A legal battle launched by ex-tycoon Sean Quinn’s family against the former Anglo Irish Bank over €2.34bn loans has been delayed again – pushing it back to next year.

A High Court judge has permitted the family of businessman Sean Quinn to proceed with claims in their forthcoming legal action that €2.34bn loans by Anglo Irish Bank to various Quinn companies were made for the unlawful purpose of propping up the bank’s share price.

The family of Sean Quinn will decide soon whether to appeal a decision in the case they are taking against IBRC and its special liquidator.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan will this week come under pressure to answer growing questions around how his department addressed concerns about the sale of Siteserv by IBRC.

A court has dismissed an appeal by businessman Seán Quinn and members of his family over disclosure of thousands of documents for a conspiracy case being brought against them by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

While the entire focus of the past week has centred around the SiteServ deal, a far more pertinent question remains unanswered:

The family of businessman Seán Quinn cannot rely on alleged illegality by the former Anglo Irish Bank as part of their case denying liability for €2.34bn in loans to Quinn Group-related companies, the Supreme Court ruled.

The High Court has backed a computerised searching method to assess the relevancy of more than 680,000 electronic documents for a case alleging businessman Seán Quinn and members of his family conspired to wrongfully convert €455m worth of a bank’s assets.

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A judge will rule later on an application by members of the family of businessman Sean Quinn for orders permitting them cross-examine Irish Bank Resolution Corporation special liquidator Kieran Wallace regarding claims they may be hiding up to €500m undisclosed assets from the bank.

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A High Court judge has made orders requiring members of bankrupt Seán Quinn’s family to disclose thousands of documents to a team appointed by a receiver for a decision on whether they are relevant to the Quinns’ assets and tax affairs.

Members of Sean Quinn's family have been accused of hiding highly relevant electronic documents amongst their family photos.

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Members of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn’s family are not entitled to better disclosure of documents and materials by a bank they are suing over the alleged unlawful issuing of €2.3bn in loans to family companies, a High Court judge ruled.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn are the “only innocent victims” in a case being brought over their alleged liability for €2.34bn in loans issued by the former Anglo Irish Bank, counsel for the Quinns told the Supreme Court yesterday.

The Quinn family may seek to cross-examine IBRC special liquidator Kieran Wallace about the manner in which the commercial court was told of proceedings taken in the US and UK following allegations by unidentified “informants” the family may be hiding up to €500m in undisclosed assets. 

The Quinn family are concerned to ensure a dispute over the method of analysing 700,000 documents for Irish Bank Resolution Corporation’s action against members of the family does not delay their own action against the bank aimed at avoiding liability for some €2.34bn loans, the Commercial Court has heard.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation wants to use a US-style form of technically assisted discovery to analyse the relevance of almost 1.75m documents for its action alleging members of the Quinn family conspired to put valuable assets beyond its reach.

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The Quinn family is planning on focusing its defence on what it says is the illegal means used by the liquidators of IBRC to obtain information alleging they hid hundreds of millions in assets.

An action by the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn against the Central Bank, finance minister, and 10 former board members of Anglo Irish Bank for multimillion-euro damages over an alleged conspiracy to unlawfully shore up the share price of Anglo is to be fast-tracked by the Commercial Court.

A solicitor hired by Anglo Irish Bank has said he never gave any legal advice in relation to the 2008 loans to the Maple Ten borrowers.

Two former directors of Anglo Irish Bank, the rogue lender that crippled Ireland’s economy, have been found guilty of hatching a multi-million euro loans-for-shares plot months before the bank’s collapse.