Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has decided that legal uncertainties around the powers of Northern Ireland civil servants amid the Stormont impasse should be dealt (...)

The State is to ask the Supreme Court to hear its appeal against a High Court ruling in favour of Graham Dwyer, which forms part of his attempt to ove(...)

In the mid-1990s, when there was a large increase in the number of asylum seekers coming here, the State was hopelessly unprepared. Each annual increa(...)

US supreme court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had surgery to remove two malignant growths from her left lung. It is Ms Ginsburg’s third bout with ca(...)

A High Court judge has said it would be “a complete waste of court time” to spend up to five days hearing an application aimed at having him cease hea(...)

A solicitor who was struck off the roll of solicitors eight years ago over findings of professional misconduct was not given a fair hearing of the str(...)

A prisoner who claimed another prisoner, a former garda, asked to be assaulted in an effort to be transferred to an open prison has lost his appeal ov(...)

A 38-year-old Dubliner in prison for most of his adult life has asked forgiveness from the mother of the man he killed in 2001 ahead of being sentence(...)

The Supreme Court has refused to make orders allowing an elderly woman with dementia return to live with her son pending his appeal over whether she i(...)

A man whose suspended sentence was reactivated after he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving causing death has won a significant Supreme Co(...)