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A debtor has had his appeal to the High Court dismissed in a preliminary hearing, on the basis that he did not have locus standi to appeal an application pursuant to the Personal Insolvency Acts 2012-2015, which was brought by a personal insolvency practitioner in the first instance. Finding in favo

A "tough stance" from judges after the Daily Mail's infamous "enemies of the people" front page dissuaded the British press from further public attacks on the bench, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd told The Brief that the papers had backed down af

The High Court has adjourned summary proceedings to plenary hearing in light of the defendant’s claims of non est factum and misrepresentation. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice Micheál O’Higgins determined that “the defendant has raised sufficient facts on

A woman has lost a personal injury case after a judged ruled that her fall down two flights of stairs at a famous jazz club in Soho was a result of her being obese, drunk and careless. Eren Hussein, 53, sought thousands of pounds in damages from Ronnie Scott’s jazz club after the mishap in 2012.

A hospital in Cork subject to a personal injury claim from a man who contracted MRSA in 2005 has had its appeal dismissed in the Court of Appeal. The Hospital argued that the personal injury summons issued in 2008 was statute barred pursuant to the Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act 1991, howeve

An advertising worker was injured after falling from a billboard advertising a personal injury law firm. David Fricker, 49, was working on a billboard advertising the services of law firm Cellino & Barnes before falling more than three metres onto a rooftop below.

A man has been fined after he branded a shark with his personal insignia. The incident outraged anglers after photos appeared on Facebook.

A court has ruled by a majority that the rectum is "inherently personal and private" after limiting how police can perform body cavity searches. Guntallwon Brown was arrested in 2015 after he sold an undercover officer crack cocaine then hid a bag of the substance in his backside.

The ‘truly exceptional’ personal and family circumstances of a mentally-ill woman have been found to outweigh the public interest in her extradition to the US, where she faces five alleged offences of drug trafficking and money laundering. Finding that the woman’s surrender to the

A hospital has lost an appeal against the finding that the two-year limitation period for issuing personal injury proceedings began when the plaintiff received a doctor’s medical report based on hospital records – not when he was informed in the weeks after his surgery that he had contra

A man who was awarded €96,403 in personal injury proceedings against Tallaght Hospital has had his award upheld by the Supreme Court. The hospital argued that the claim was statute barred in circumstances where the hospital’s omission to carry out a CT scan occurred in 2007, and the perso

A massive dataset of personal information from 553 million Facebook users which surfaced online over the weekend may predate the GDPR, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) has said. In a statement yesterday, the watchdog said it is continuing to "establish the full facts" in connection with the data

The High Court has awarded both personal damages and repayment to the company in an unfair prejudice claim against a Coleraine company which voted to oust a founding shareholder. The petitioner, Mr Fergus Shaw, sought relief under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006 on the grounds that the affairs

Northern Ireland personal injury firm JMK Solicitors has appointed six long-standing team members as directors in the firm.

An agreement that allowed technology companies and others to send personal data from the EU to the US has been declared invalid by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Following the opinion of Advocate General Yves Bot, the court has ruled that the Safe Harbour agreement did not eliminate the abilit