Judge urges sides to move Rocca case on

THE judge hearing an action related to the privacy of the home of singer Van Morrison and his wife yesterday urged efforts be made over the weekend to move on the case which is set to go into its fifth day even though it was scheduled to take just two.

Mr Justice Michael Hanna made the recommendation when granting lawyers for Michelle Rocca time until Monday to reply to a newly submitted statement on behalf of her neighbours, Mary and Desmond Kavanagh, relating to trees which had been cut down during redevelopment of their home, Mount Alverno, which is next to the Morrisons’ Kilross House residence off the Sorrento Road, Dalkey, Dublin.

Earlier, the judge told lawyers for both sides he found their “squabbling” unedifying and urged them to “move on”.