A roundup of today's other courts news in brief
Stay put on restraining order over ESB line
An order restraining a couple from preventing the ESB entering their lands near Boyle, Co Roscommon, to erect an overhead power line, has been stayed by the High Court to later this month.
Ms Justice Mary Laffoy agreed to put a stay on the order until April 30th to allow consideration of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The case arose after the ESB in October 2002 secured planning permission for construction of a 220kV overhead transmission line.
Mel Christle SC, for the ESB and Eirgrid, sought the order against Michael Roddy and his wife, Martina, related to erection of part of that line over their lands at Grange Beg and Ballymore West.
Opposing, the couple argued that overhead power lines pose a health risk.
The judge yesterday found the ESB was entitled to the order but said the dispute could have been referred to arbitration.
Judge to rule on order barring picket
A judge will rule next week whether to confirm an injunction prohibiting picketing in an industrial dispute which has left almost all of Ballymun’s remaining blocks of flats without working lifts.
Just two out of 27 lifts are operating in the nine remaining eight-storey blocks and the 14-storey Plunkett Tower because of pickets placed by striking repairmen, the court has heard. Some 450 families and four wheelchair-bound individuals are affected.
Ms Justice Mary Laffoy yesterday continued to early next week a temporary injunction granted on Tuesday to Dublin City Council against the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union over the dispute, which arose last February when the lift repair contractor, Pickerings, sought to make seven of its employees redundant.
Noise tests on hotel and nightclub
Sound tests are to be carried out at a Dublin hotel and nightclub to see if major sound-proofing improvements resolve a dispute about noise levels. They will take place in the River House Hotel and its Think Tank nightclub and Mezz Bar in Temple Bar.
Circuit Court president Mr Justice Matthew Deery adjourned the case until May.
Frank Conway (65), who runs the premises with his wife Sheelagh and son Nicholas (22), had sought the removal or modification of live music restraints he had to give the Circuit Civil Court last year to renew his drinks licence.
Mr Conway said he had spent €80,000 installing a soundproofing system which meant live music could not be heard on the street outside.
Colm Mac Eochaidh SC, who appeared for local residents and objectors Frank McDonald, environment editor of The Irish Times, and Michael Egan, who lives opposite the Mezz Bar, told Judge Deery the parties had agreed to an independent sound assessment to test Mr Conway's claims.
Man charged over Belfast murder
An 18-year-old man will appear in court this morning charged with the murder of a Belfast man on Thursday.
He was charged last night by police investigating the murder of 58-year-old Séamus Fox and will appear before Laganside Court in Belfast. Mr Fox was found with serious head injuries on waste ground in west Belfast at 2am.
Emergency services were called to the scene, which is at the rear of Woodburn PSNI station, but the man died before he could be taken to hospital.