# courts-service - Thursday 2 January, 2020
The Courts Service has called for the further reform of the court fines system.
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# courts-service - Monday 8 July, 2019
Awards in medical negligence cases in the High Court were also down last year.
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# courts-service - Saturday 17 November, 2018
Justice Frank Clarke says the direction is about ensuring fair trials.
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# courts-service - Sunday 29 July, 2018
Critics state the Courts Services continued investment in the tobacco industry flies in the face of the government’s Tobacco Free Ireland vision.
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# courts-service - Sunday 22 July, 2018
The integrated court complex has been hampered in delays for years.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
46-year-old Richard Burbridge committed the offences while operating a courier contract for the Courts Service.
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# courts-service - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
The biggest award given in the courts last year was €9 million.
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# courts-service - Monday 3 July, 2017
The Charities Regulator sold off its shares this year.
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# courts-service - Monday 28 November, 2016
6,616 people have been committed to prison thus far in 2016 for non-payment of fines.
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# courts-service - Sunday 27 November, 2016
Using previously unpublished data, FactCheck steps in to referee a heated dispute between the Law Society and the insurance industry.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 12 July, 2016
Meanwhile, the District Court dealt with 12,000 drugs offences and 30,000 public order offences in 2015.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
That’s what the Child Care Law Reporting Project is asking.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 14 July, 2015
62% of the cases that appear before the District Court relate to road traffic offences, which is little change from the year previous.
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# courts-service - Friday 13 February, 2015
“Up to 60 people were involved in a wholesale chaotic brawl, fisticuffs and dangerous scenes of violence.”
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# courts-service - Tuesday 2 December, 2014
Exactly one third of judges in the country are women.
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# courts-service - Wednesday 5 November, 2014
The President of the Court said it is their goal to keep up to date with current appeals as far as reasonably possible.
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# courts-service - Thursday 16 October, 2014
One judge cost the state €45,222 in expenses.
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# courts-service - Monday 22 September, 2014
A plan to close them has been shelved.
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# courts-service - Friday 25 July, 2014
Road tax penalties, debt collectors, tax credit cuts have all been floated to deal with traffic fines.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 4 February, 2014
The poor box has been in existence since before the foundation of the State.
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The videos, by the Ombudsman for Children and the Courts Service, offer advice on the workings of a family law court and the process of a separation.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 21 January, 2014
The ‘Poor Box’ option can be used by judges for a variety of reasons, including cases where a conviction might be inappropriate or adversely affect employment.
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# courts-service - Monday 16 December, 2013
The figures are contained in the latest volume of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, which also details several high-profile cases.
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# courts-service - Monday 19 August, 2013
The 61-year-old will be laid to rest this afternoon.
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# courts-service - Monday 29 July, 2013
The courthouse is expected to expand visitor numbers to Kilmainham Gaol.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 9 July, 2013
The figures for 2012 were laid out in today’s Annual Report from the Courts Service.
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# courts-service - Monday 8 July, 2013
The 17 things we learned today…
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Chief Justice Susan Denham said today that a “trail of devastation winds its way into our courts daily”.
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The vast majority of cases heard in Irish courts were related to road-traffic offences.
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# courts-service - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Figures from the Courts Service show that the number of repossessions has fallen 46 per cent in two years.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Most of the expenses, which are down 42 per cent on 2008, were incurred in travel and subsistence.
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# courts-service - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Ireland is considering introducing them as a sentencing option in drink-driving convictions, a measure recommended this week in the US.
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# courts-service - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Nine Departments and agencies needed extra top-ups to their funding in 2012. Here’s where the overflow went.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
Two Government departments, and two state bodies, are seeking extra funding in today’s business at Leinster House.
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# courts-service - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
Minister Shatter has said that “no court venue has been singled out or indeed exempted from the review process”.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 17 July, 2012
The frequency of both murder and rape cases increased since 2010, as did the number of care orders granted to the HSE.
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# courts-service - Tuesday 13 March, 2012
Seven judges have been nominated to the Circuit Court and five have been put forward for the District Court.
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# courts-service - Friday 14 October, 2011
Starting this morning, judges will no longer be required to wear horsehair wigs – a tradition dating back to 1660 – in court.
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# courts-service - Monday 25 July, 2011
Chief Justice Susan Denham says the judiciary does not oppose a referendum allowing their pay to be cut – and has refused a pay rise of €38,044.
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