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Court of Appeal dismisses an appeal brought by a solicitor against the High Court's decision rejecting her judicial review claim following her dismissal from employment, on the grounds that the solicitor's repeated refusal to accept court rulings, and her disruptive behavior, had prevented a fair hearing; and the court also affirms the High Court's award of legal costs on a legal practitioner and client basis to the respondents, citing the solicitor's conduct as a justification for marking disapproval.

High Court refuses the plaintiff an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendant, a 76-year-old farmer, from selling or marketing a property which the plaintiff claimed the defendant had agreed to sell to them for €1.2 million, on the grounds that, despite the plaintiff's assertions, there was insufficient evidence of a legally binding agreement or any meaningful act of part performance that would justify the injunction; and the balance of convenience favored the defendant, who, along with his family, had a definite property interest.

The Court of Appeal dismisses appeal and upholds the High Court's dismissal of the claim of a ship's port agent for disbursements made on behalf of a vessel which was under a time charter, on the grounds that the agent, who had provided services at the request of the charterers, not the owners, failed to establish any contractual relationship or personal liability on the part of the vessel's owners; and there was no evidence that the charterers were acting as agents for the owners or that the master of the vessel was involved in the transactions.