Supreme Court

Leave for further appeal granted due to issue of general public importance and the question of statutory interpretation of potentially broad application

Environmental activist claims the law enabling the Minister to issue specific planning policy requirements is repugnant to the Constitution

Thirteen-year saga over tax status of delivery staff has important implications for workers in the gig economy

Friends of the Irish Environment sought to quash Food Vision 2030 on grounds it was not subjected to adequate environmental impact assessments

President Michael D Higgins referred Bill to State’s highest court, identifying 12 provisions of it for special attention

Galway woman claimed she did not get full share of estate after her father died in 1987

Advisory body gathered by President Michael D Higgins to seek expert view on whether Bill should go to Supreme Court

Court to hold further hearing on whether to direct woman’s retrial on four sexual assault counts

Seán Walsh (56) is wanted in Northern Ireland to face charges of IRA membership stemming from a 2020 police surveillance operation

Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell says judges are public servants and everyone coming into an Irish court ‘should be treated equally and listened to’

Fianna Fáil Justice spokesman told Minister proposed law may interfere with Government’s constitutional right to nominate judges

Judicial Council’s 2022 annual report shows 17 of 34 complaints did not fall under scope of relevant Act

Appeal bid filed days after Gorey Gaelscoil board of management was dissolved

Supreme Court decision on ‘reasonable mistake’ about age may inform drafting of planned law on sexual offences

Law creates ‘unnecessarily high risk’ of conviction for defendants who are genuinely mistaken about age, court says

His relationship with some Supreme Court judges was ‘frosty’ during those months of the controversy

Decision will have implications for An Bord Pleanála and some ten other challenges over strategic housing developments

Judges’ personal aides see a lot: verbal attacks, judgments flung across rooms, and occasionally ‘very violent’ incidents

Decision affirming Quirke’s murder conviction looks set to be the go-to judgment around the law on unconstitutionally obtained evidence

Court of Appeal decision refused to halt trial

Keith Connorton (44) appealed conviction for murdering 32-year-old Graham McKeever after he found him sleeping with partner

Seven-judge court unanimously affirmed his 2019 conviction for murder of Bobby Ryan

Judges found parts of 1937 Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937 were inconsistent with Constitution

The 31-year-old man was just six years old when older boys raped him for the first time in the centre run by Sisters of Mercy of Borromeo in Zabrze

Emma and Carol Walls and Aoife McCann spent three years studying to become barristers

Justice Minister Helen McEntee introduced emergency legislation to provide a legal basis for any Garda member to conduct a prosecution in the District Court

Community group is appealing over decision to allow Ardstone Homes to defend approval it received for 241 Dublin apartments

Citizens Assembly recommended in mid-2021 that article should be amended to protect family life beyond ‘marital family’

Bank has said adverse outcome in the cases could affect thousands of customers and trigger ‘enormous financial’ consequences for the lender

Judges say ‘significant issues of general public importance arise’ in arguments raised in legal action

Case must raise a matter of law of general public importance or be necessary in the interests of justice, to be heard by Supreme Court

Seven-judge court unanimously agrees to dismiss Garda Commissioner’s appeal over access to journalist’s phone

Appeal centred on interpretation of 2012 Personal Insolvency Act

Bar council says proposed reforms could drive up defamation awards and legal costs

Seven-judge court upholds decision that the adoption of a teenage girl by her foster mother, against the wishes of birth mother, is correct

Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly first openly gay judge nominated to Supreme Court

Court to rule on what should happen regarding 2019 conviction for ‘Mr Moonlight’ murder

Union claims a provision of the order was deemed invalid by the Supreme Court

Litigation between Joseph and Thomas Slattery has incurred ‘extraordinary’ legal costs compared to value of 4.5 acre land near Lahinch

Persistent legal challenges and disruptive court appearances by members of the well-known Co Mayo family have raised questions about how the courts should handle these unconventional litigants