The court hearing for drink-drive accused Ant McPartlin has been postponed. The TV presenter was due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday charged with the offence. But a spokeswoman for the court said the hearing had been adjourned with a new date yet to be set. McPartlin was charged by postal requisition on [...]
In February 2018, the Court of Appeal delivered its judgement in an appeal against a ruling of the High Court that the refusal of medical staff to release a voluntary patient from a psychiatric institution when he expressed a wish to leave was not unlawful. When the matter came on for hearing, the Court was [...]
A nurse who helped rescue the baby saved in the Buncrana drowning tragedy is suing the family of those who perished in the tragedy. Stephanie Knox was along with her then-boyfriend Davitt Walsh on March 20th, 2016 when a jeep slipped into Lough Swilly off Buncrana Pier. Five members of the same family drowned [...]
A court has upheld the right of a person to use reasonable force to defend themselves against a home intruder. In a landmark decision, a Central Criminal Court jury acquitted Martin Keenan (20) of the murder of an unarmed man he stabbed to death with broken garden shears after finding him in his bedroom. It [...]
A nun who was involved in a lawsuit with pop star Katy Perry over the sale of a convent in Los Angeles has died after collapsing during a court appearance. Sister Catherine Rose Holzman (89) had served the church "with dedication and love for many years", Archbishop Jose Gomez said in a statement. Holzman was [...]
A former stripper and dating show contestant who once streaked in Croke Park has been jailed for five years for a sex attack on a woman he met on dating app Tinder. Dubliner Paul Flaherty (30) first made the headlines in 2007 when he did a charity fundraising streak at a match in Croke Park. [...]
For 50 minutes Thursday, a group of judges considered the case of a man who stripped naked outside the federal courthouse in downtown Portland, played violin beside the engraving of a Thomas Jefferson quote and then sat for hours on the ground before his arrest. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
Harvey Weinstein is facing a damages claim in a London court by a woman who accuses the Hollywood producer of sexual assault. Personal injury lawyer Jill Greenfield says her client, who hasn’t been identified, is seeking damages for “personal injury” plus expenses and “consequential loss” arising out of a series of sexual assaults by [...]
A judge has turned down as inadequate a €25,000 settlement offer A judge has turned down as inadequate a €25,000 settlement offer to a five-year-old boy who lacerated one of his eyebrows in a fall at a Co Dublin crèche. Samantha Cruess Callaghan, counsel for the young boy, told the Circuit Civil Court that he, [...]
A third State agency will investigate the loss of four air crew in the Irish Coast Guard Rescue 116 helicopter crash off the north Co Mayo coast in March. The Health and Safety Authority is now working with An Garda Síochána on a joint investigation that will result in a file being forwarded to the Director of Public [...]