US comedian Bill Cosby has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault, each of which carries a potential 10 years in prison. The actor, 80, has been on trial for drugging and assaulting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand in 2004. Cosby, the first major black actor on primetime TV, will remain out of jail [...]
The EU judges said that Lionel Messi should get the EU trademark for the logo, which consists of an emblem with an M, with the name Messi underneath. The soccer player has fought since 2011 to get the EU trademark rights for the logo, which is used for sports clothing and shoes. Jaume Masferrer Coma, [...]
Catriona Fitzpatrick, the wife of Sean Fitzpatrick, the former chairman of the collapsed Anglo Irish Bank, is claiming around €6m in assets some of which were jointly held by the couple before her husband was declared bankrupt in 2010, the High Court has heard. Mrs Fitzpatrick was giving evidence on the second day of the [...]
A 23-month-old boy, who had not been conceived when his little sister was killed in a hit-and-run in Dublin's Phoenix Park on 6 April 2015, has been awarded "grief money" for her death. Marcel Siatka was born in May 2016, a year and 47 days after his sister Vanessa died in what a trial judge [...]
A van driver who claimed he hurt his back when a mattress he was delivering was lifted by a gust of wind into the air, draggging him four metres, has been awarded €380,000 damages. Declan Homan was delivering the mattress to an apartment on the last of 16 deliveries when he was “caught by a [...]
An appeal by businessman Denis O'Brien against the High Court's dismissal of his action over statements made in the Dáil about his banking affairs will begin in the Supreme Court this morning. Mr O'Brien is appealing against the High Court's decision that it had no power to rule on issues raised by him about how [...]
Bankrupt businessman Sean Dunne has said that even though his home in the US was empty, he "didn't need furniture to live in a house". Mr Dunne yesterday told the High Court he has lived on occasions without furniture and that he had previously stayed in tents in African townships. He was giving evidence yesterday [...]
Republic of Ireland footballer Darron Gibson is appearing in court today charged with drink-driving following a St Patrick's Day crash. The 30-year-old midfielder was on his way to meet colleagues at Sunderland's Academy of Light when he was involved in a collision on Dovedale Road on Saturday March 17. The former Manchester United and Everton [...]
Olympian Oscar Pistorius has finally run out of options to appeal against his 13-year prison sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, legal experts have said. South Africa's highest court dismissed Pistorius's request to review the prison sentence on Monday, bringing a close to a five-year legal saga surrounding the man who was [...]
Tulisa has finally won a bitter, five-year court battle after she first claimed she co-wrote and featured on Britney Spears and Will.I.Am’s song Scream and Shout. The song was released in 2012 and topped the UK charts – giving Brit her first number 1 in over a decade – but Tulisa long maintained she co-wrote [...]