Justice Caroline Costello
High Court asks ECJ to examine Facebook case

A High Court judge has asked the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) to determine the validity or otherwise of European Commission decisions approving EU(...)

Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon wants a ruling on the validity of the European Commission’s decisions approving standard contractual clauses before finalising her decision on Max Schrems’s complaint. File photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
High Court to rule on landmark data privacy case next week

The High Court will rule next week on an action by the Data Protection Commissioner with potentially enormous implications for EU-US trade and the pri(...)

Ms Justice Caroline Costello was told that the only reason Hollywood Landfill, at The Naul, Co Dublin, accepted the waste was because the defendants allegedly produced documents and information mis-describing it as non-hazardous
Hazardous waste moved to Dublin landfill after claims it was safe, court told

The Spencer Dock Development Company, PJ Hegarty and Sons and Barnmore Demolition and Civil Engineering transferred hazardous waste to a North Dublin (...)

Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon: asked the High Court earlier this year to refer to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) the question of whether the standard contractual clauses used by companies to transfer personal data are valid. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Britain wants EU to accept its data protection regime after Brexit

Britain wants to co-operate with the European Union in relation to data protection and to have its legal regime accepted after it leaves, it said on T(...)

Gayle Killilea has said she is judicially separated from her bankrupt developer husband, Seán Dunne. Photograph: Collins Courts
Killilea move to question official disputed in court

Gayle Killilea’s attempt to win orders allowing her lawyers to cross-examine the official administering the bankruptcy of her estranged husband, devel(...)

Gayle Killilea leaves the Four Courts on Tuesday, May 23rd. She told the court she is separated from her bankrupt developer husband Sean Dunne.
Gayle Killilea ‘is legally separated’ from bankrupt Seán Dunne

Gayle Killilea has legally separated from her bankrupt developer husband Sean Dunne and has not received any benefit from the €14 million sale of a ho(...)

Facebook agreed with the US that the court should have regard to the information about the data-collection restrictions. Photograph: Reuters
Facebook trying to introduce ‘Trojan horse’ in data case, court told

The Data Protection Commissioner has told the High Court new restrictions on collection of some personal data by the US National Security Agency have (...)

Glen of the Downs Golf Club. In the High Court, Ms Justice Caroline Costello said businessman Michael Doyle was not entitled to various injunctions allowing him to retake possession of the club.
Businessman fails to get possession order for Co Wicklow golf course

A businessman has failed to get High Court injunctions allowing him to retake possession of the Glen of the Downs Golf Course in Co Wicklow from a re(...)

Austrian lawyer Max Schrems maintains the main protections provided by the US for data privacy rights of EU citizens have no statutory basis and “could be altered tomorrow”, the High Court has heard.
Max Schrems claims US data privacy protections ‘ephemeral’

Austrian lawyer Max Schrems maintains the main protections provided by the US for data privacy rights of EU citizens have no statutory basis and “coul(...)

Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon: made a draft finding in May 2016 that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems had “well-founded” objections to the transfer of his personal data from Facebook Ireland to its US parent. Photograph: Eric Luke
US defends its data privacy protections in Facebook case

No other country has explained its national security system in the way the US has to the European Commission, the High Court has been told by lawyers(...)