A LEGAL challenge to the entitlement of Start Mortgages Ltd to issue mortgages here has major implications for Start’s €1 billion housing loans and for the legal position of other lenders, the Central Bank has told the Commercial Court.

AN unemployed construction worker has brought a High Court challenge aimed at stopping a mortgage provider from taking possession of what has been his family’s home for more than three centuries.

A challenge to Start Mortgages lending practices has been given the go ahead by the High Court.

A judge has ruled that a five-year-old boy at the centre of an international custody battle will remain in the US with his father, while his mother must return to Northern Ireland.