CONTROVERSIAL Independent Mayo TD Beverly Flynn, has launched a constitutional challenge to provisions which prevent a person who is an undischarged court-declared bankrupt from running for or being a member of the Dáil.

IRISH EXAMINER food writer Darina Allen told the High Court yesterday she felt very strongly about the importance of local food markets in this country and believed they played a role in rural development.

A FORMER equity dealer with Davy stockbrokers who sued the firm over unpaid deferred bonuses is due €327,551 after winning his High Court action.

THE High Court has ruled that Davy Stockbrokers should pay a former employee bonuses due to him.

THE Mahon Tribunal has agreed not to proceed, pending the hearing of a legal appeal next month, with further inquiries into allegations made against Cork property developer Owen O’Callaghan by developer Tom Gilmartin.

CORK property developer Owen O’Callaghan’s appeal against the High Court’s rejection of his bid to prevent the Mahon tribunal’s further inquiring into or making any findings on allegations made against him by developer Tom Gilmartin will be heard within weeks the Supreme Court indicated yesterday.

PROPERTY developer Owen O’Callaghan is facing a legal bill of more than €2 million arising from his unsuccessful challenge to the Mahon Tribunal’s further inquiring into or making any findings on allegations made against him by developer Tom Gilmartin.

A MAN who told his boss ‘you’re a little bollox’ at a gala dinner has begun interlocutory injunction proceedings in the High Court aimed at preventing his dismissal from Cadbury’s Ireland Limited.

A SCHEME under which two directors of one of the country’s largest construction companies received Ir£600,000 (€760,000) in tax-free dividends was a tax avoidance scheme involving a misuse of export sales tax reliefs, the High Court ruled yesterday.

FOR several months I have watched from across the sea as the fate of my ancestral homeland has been decided on the pages of newspapers, in public hearings, and in the High Court.

ENVIRONMENTALIST Vincent Salafia was ordered by the High Court yesterday to pay a legal costs bill, which could be over €600,000, arising from his unsuccessful challenge to the proposed routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara.

An environmentalist who lost his court challenge to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today had legal costs of up to €600,000 awarded against him.

An environmentalist who lost his court challenge to the routing of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara today appealed for his costs to be granted.

THE road to yesterday’s historic constitutional ruling began in a Tralee court two years ago when Judge Brian Curtin was acquitted of possessing child pornography.

WORK on the controversial new prison at Thornton Hall in north Co Dublin can proceed after a High Court challenge to the development was withdrawn yesterday.

THE proposed route of the M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara was chosen after extensive public consultation involving some four thousand people and culminating in a 28-day oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála, the High Court was told yesterday.

JUDGE Brian Curtin’s Supreme Court appeal next Monday against the right of TDs and Senators to gather evidence of his alleged misbehaviour for the purposes of an impeachment motion will be heard by seven of the nine judges on the court.

GARDAÍ were aware, some months prior to Judge Brian Curtin’s appointment in 2001 as a Circuit Court judge, of “electronic transmissions” and the “matters now being investigated” by a Joint Oireachtas Committee set up to investigate the judge’s alleged misbehaviour, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.

JUDGE Brian Curtin yesterday failed in his attempt to prevent the Oireachtas investigating how child pornography was found on his personal computer.

It was important that the High Court yesterday cleared the way for the issue of Judge Brian Curtin to be considered by the Oireachtas inquiry.

Judge Brian Curtin today failed to halt an Oireachtas committee investigation into the discovery of child pornography on his home computer.

THE owner of the Dublin pub where a barman was seriously wounded during an armed robbery on Sunday night was himself robbed of €40,000 two days earlier.

PUBLISHER Michael Hogan yesterday failed to secure a High Court interlocutory injunction restraining two of his former employees setting up a rival wedding magazine called Weddings Irish Style.

Liam Lawlor has been sentenced to a month in prison for failing to comply with a tribunal probing planning irregularities.

The unborn baby of a Nigerian woman fighting deportation is entitled to a legal declaration that he or she is a person, the High Court was told today.

The Supreme Court has granted a stay on a High Court ruling that would have sent independent TD Liam Lawlor back to jail for seven days next week.

Lawyers for Liam Lawlor have told the Supreme Court that the wrong decision was made when the independent TD was sentenced to seven days in prison last Tuesday.

The High Court has jailed Dublin West TD Liam Lawlor for seven days after he failed to honour an order to cooperate with the Flood Tribunal.

The High Court has been told that there is no documentation for large volumes of banking transactions involving Liam Lawlor.

The High Court will decide on July 3 if documents filed by Liam Lawlor TD meet the requirements of lawyers at the Flood Tribunal.

The High Court will rule at 2pm today in the Contempt of Court case being taken against independent TD Liam Lawlor.

Embattled TD Liam Lawlor is facing a possible dismissal from a Dail Committee later today.

Closing arguments in the contempt of court case against Liam Lawlor will resume in the morning.

Contempt of court proceedings against Liam Lawlor TD has resumed in the High Court today.

The High Court has been told that Justice Thomas Smyth represented a witness 10 years ago who is scheduled to testify at the Flood Tribunal.

Lawyers for Liam Lawlor will again call today for Mr Justice Thomas Smyth to step down from the case of alleged contempt being taken against the controversial TD.