A round-up of today's other courts news
Challenge to regulations on bus lanes
A challenge to regulations preventing chauffeur-driven vehicles from using bus lanes when taxis are allowed to do so has come before the High Court.
Joseph Egan, a licensed small public service vehicle driver of Kincora Court, Clontarf, Dublin, who is charged with breaches of the regulations, has brought the proceedings challenging their validity.
When the case was mentioned before Mr Justice Bryan McMahon yesterday, Paul Anthony McDermott, for the Minister for Transport and the State, secured an adjournment of four weeks to allow his side secure further particulars from the plaintiff in order to finalise a defence.
Mr Egan said he provides a chauffeur driving service and the regulations operate to his commercial detriment. There was no reason why small public service vehicles should be excluded from bus lanes, he said.
Surgeon seeks to set aside order
A French surgeon who was found guilty of professional misconduct over an operation on a Wicklow woman who died 10 hours after surgery is seeking to set aside an order striking him off the Irish medical register.
Dr Jerome Manuceau, of Rue Soufflot, Paris, was struck off by the High Court last September arising from an operation on Bernadette Reid (48) at the Advanced Cosmetic Surgery (ACS) clinic in Stillorgan in February 2007.
Yesterday, counsel for the doctor told the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Richard Johnson, he was seeking to set aside that order on instructions from a Paris-based firm of lawyers.
Mr Justice Johnson told counsel he was not in the right venue as there was no power to set aside the ruling of another High Court judge. Dr Manuceau would have to go to the Supreme Court if he wished to appeal, the judge said.