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13 May '19
On 9 May 2019 a five Judge Supreme Court handed down a judgment in the case of ACC Loan Management Limited DAC -v- Mark Rickard and Gerard Rickard [2017/146]. The Supreme Court had to make a decision on an appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal by Mark Rickard. The background to the [...]
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In 2010 James Fagan, as a director and shareholder of Chevas Securities Ltd borrowed €10 million from Ulster Bank to purchase properties in Dublin, Sligo, Dundalk and Galway. The borrowings were secured over a large number of properties, in particular 28 apartments known as Royston Village in Kimmage, Dublin. The borrowings were restructured in September [...]
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As everyone is aware in February 2013 the Irish Bank Resolution Act 2013 was enacted and a Special Liquidation Order was signed by the Minister for Finance placing IBRC ( a merger of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society) into Special Liquidation. The Special Liquidators of IBRC then had the monumental task of [...]
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Res Judicata is a long established rule in law that you cannot take the same situation, arising from the same set of facts, and litigate it more than once. The principle was established in a case from 1834 known as Henderson v. Henderson. In modern times, an order from the court, restricting the ability of [...]
